Rewind: How private equity kills companies and communities

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, it's Neil Eye. The Dakota team and I are settling back in the podcast booth after the winter break in CES, and we're going to have new episodes for you starting on Monday. In the meantime, we wanted to highlight one of our favorites from last year, an interview with the journalist and author Megan Greenwell about her book Bad Company, Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. Private equity is one of those recurring themes of modern capitalism.

You can just plug the words private equity into Google, and you will find scores of news stories about PE encroaching on everything from college sports in Utah to mobile home parks in the Adirondacks. It's everywhere, and my conversation with Meghan last year was extremely illuminating as to why private equity does what it does to industries like healthcare, media, and real estate. and just how deeply it's affecting the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. It's a really great conversation that feels just as timely today as it did last summer. Enjoy, and we'll see you next week with more new episodes of Decoder.

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