Ep. 380 Private Equity Wins, The Community Loses Out with Megan Greenwell
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Stacks, journalist Megan Greenwell joins to discuss her debut book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. She breaks down the ins and outs of private equity, how it works, why it harms communities, and if there is an ethical path for the industry.
The Stacks Book Club pick for July is God Help the Child by Toni Morrison. We will discuss next Wednesday, June 30th with Dana A. Williams.
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| 1:09.5 | I'm still learning all the time about industries that private equity |
| 1:14.0 | has growing influence in that, you know, I've been researching this for three years. |
| 1:19.1 | There are too many industries to keep up. And the reason retail is the first section of the book |
| 1:25.7 | is when you really start digging in, you can really see the ways retail is the first section of the book is when you really start digging in, |
| 1:28.2 | you can really see the ways in which the playbook for modern private equity deals get set in |
| 1:35.1 | retail and then applied to industries like hospitals as if those are the same thing, right? |
| 1:42.0 | Because it doesn't matter what they do. They're just replaceable widgets. |
| 1:50.9 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am joined by journalist and editor, Megan Greenwell. She is the author of a brand new book called Bad Company, |
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