private equity

Private Equity May Be A Ticking Time Bomb For Public Pension Plans

It won’t just be people in the private equity industry who suffer. Millions of Americans who hold a public pension plan could be squarely in the blast radius.
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Democrats Have Set Up A Showdown Over A Notorious Tax Loophole

Sen. Joe Manchin is “adamant” about fixing a tax break for wealthy investors, but fellow moderate Kyrsten Sinema had wanted to keep it untouched.
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Private Equity Is Gobbling Up Hospice Chains And Capturing The Business Of Dying

One private-equity-led hospice chain has thousands of seniors in its care and millions of dollars in government revenue. The owner's identity is a mystery.
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Corporate Power Is On The Ballot In A Key Massachusetts House Primary

Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse's criticism of Rep. Richard Neal's coziness with private equity tests the potency of an anti-corruption message for Democratic voters.
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As Coronavirus Bears Down, A Private Equity Deal Haunts A Top Puerto Rican Hospital

The company has an expired loan to “vulture” financiers and a pattern of laying off workers over the last two years.
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Opinion | Sears Didn't 'Die.' Vulture Capitalists Killed It.

Bankruptcy wasn't inevitable. It was Wall Street's business strategy.
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Prestige Predators: Private Equity Cashes In On Payday Lending

In 2017, poverty is big business.
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The Big Problem With TPP's Super Court That We're Not Talking About

Financiers will use it to bet on lawsuits, while taxpayers foot the bill.
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Wall Street Exec Tried To Scam People With ‘Brazen’ $95 Million Fraud, Feds Say

Andrew Caspersen is allegedly guilty of a cartoonish Wall Street fraud scheme.
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Bill Gates Doubles Down to Scale up Support for New Impact Investing Funds

When Bill Gates agreed a couple years ago to put a small piece of his personal fortune into a fund that invests in companies serving low-income customers in India, he invited the fund managers to return with a plan to scale up their investments and their social impact.
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