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How a private equity pioneer lost its grip on the market it invented

Partners Group pursued an innovative approach to private equity: The firm built a business serving a market of individual investors. Now, a recent executive order from US President Donald Trump is set to unlock that marketplace on an even grander scale.The only thing is, Partners ...  Afficher plus

A hedge fund’s $8bn bet on Venezuela’s Citgo

When the hedge fund Elliott Management pursued the acquisition of the oil refinery business Citgo a few years ago, the deal was already a complicated one. A US court had ordered its current owner, Venezuela, to sell the business, and the country was not happy about it. But, thing ...  Afficher plus

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What’s wrong with economics? With Angus Deaton
The Economics Show

Sir Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015. So when he says he is rethinking many of his assumptions about the field, it matters. Today on the show, Soumaya discusses what we are getting wrong about everything from inequality to immigration to the role of global ...

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Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles
The Economics Show

A recently released research paper calls into question many of the assumptions about the rate at which income inequality has grown in the US over the past 75 years. Today on the show, Soumaya and the FT’s economics commentator, Chris Giles, discuss this bombshell report, and w ...

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What does the US get wrong about China? With Adam Posen
The Economics Show

NOTE: This podcast was recorded before Joe Biden announced he was stepping down from the US presidential race


Both the Republicans and Democrats are talking tough on economic competition with China. But is this wise? Today on the show, Adam Posen, president of the Pe ...

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What happens when manufacturing goes away? With Amy Goldstein
The Economics Show

The GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, closed during the financial crisis in 2008, ending decades of production – and 3,000 steady, highly paid jobs. Journalist Amy Goldstein wrote about the town as the plant’s workers hurried to make new lives. Her book, ‘Janesville: An Ameri ...

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