Kyle Harrison
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Bad Company

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Author
Megan Greenwell
Published
2025
Pages
320
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Private equity told through the people on the receiving end of four buyouts — the case against, made narratively.

Where I saw it: Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) on X, February 13, 2026: “Immensely readable and completely enraging.”

Connections

  • Private Equity — the subject, argued from the bottom up.
  • Capital Allocation — worth reading precisely because it is the hostile brief.