Is Private Equity Plotting World Domination?

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Something is bothering me this week. I am wondering whether everything really does have a price. ...

Something is bothering me this week. I am wondering whether everything really does have a price. I am questioning how sensible it is to allow an obscene amount of money and power to be concentrated in the hands of an unscrupulous few. In short, I am fretting that private equity is plotting world domination, and that it could happen without us dozy plebians even taking our eyes off the TV long enough to notice. I was researching an article, with, I admit, preconceived ideas about what private equity means. I was going to write an earth shaking expose of a dark, secretive and corrupt in...

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