A review by christopher_pickert
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

informative fast-paced

4.75

This is essential reading (for people in the USA at least). The abuses the author outlines are appalling and effect all of us. It helps explain many things I've seen happen (both directly and indirectly through the media) but didn't quite understand, such as the deterioration of the medical services I've used. My only criticism is more a worry: that the alarmist subtitle and skull motif might make this book seem less legit, when in fact it's quite sensibly organized and well-argued (and not hard to read in the slightest). It even sums up ways to take action. I imagine that the publisher might have had something to do with the packaging. Of course, we should be alarmist about this subject.