Private Equity: Your Ears Will Bleed

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Private equity is a business operation where companies are bought and run at their leanest to maximize returns for a handful of investors. It can be a lifeline for a flailing company or run it into the ground. Either way, PE firms make out like bandits.

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0:47.4	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
0:56.0	Oh, wow.
0:57.2	Fancy.
0:58.0	Yeah, I wanted to dress it up a little bit because it's our job, Chuck, to yank what could be a bone-dry, boring economics lesson from the maw of, well, boredom, shake it up a little bit by the
1:17.0	collar, look it in the eye and say, you will not be boring today, and then do all that.
1:24.6	All right.
1:25.6	Okay, we can do it, Chuck. We're professionals.
1:27.9	I'm glad you feel good about it.
1:30.0	I do.
1:30.7	And I'm going to make you feel good about it too.
1:33.2	Because what we're talking about today is no mere typical economics.
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