Author Talk: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

Much has been written about the hollowing out of America’s middle class, but nothing has fully detailed the outsized role played by a small cohort of elite financiers. This revelatory work unmasks predators on Wall Street, and their government enablers, who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation’s economy for their own enrichment: private equity. With the instincts of seasoned reporters, its authors investigate the biggest names in private equity, exposing how they buy companies, load them with debt, and then bleed them of assets and profits. All while prosecutors and regulators stand idly by.