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How Private Equity Works and Why It Matters
- Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt
- January/February 2016
- Issue 322
The (usually) legal ways that today’s “leveraged buyout“ artists load companies with debt, strip their assets, and make a killing. |
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