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Has Private Equity Ruined Capitalism?

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Has Private Equity Ruined Capitalism?
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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I have many friends in business startups. It’s not the same as it once was. Get more than 50 employees and your company is hit with tremendous numbers of mandates, the most expensive of which is health care but there are others too. You are subject to new levels of policing, liability threats, and mandatory benefits for employees that vastly raise costs.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]