Bad Company by Megan Greenwell
Bad Company describes how hedge funds and private equity firms are destroying America. To make her point, the author chose 4 real people--a Toys R Us employee, a doctor in small-town Wyoming, a newspaper writer, and a woman living in a huge apartment complex taken over by a private equity firm. Since the goal of hedge funds and private equity firms is to make money, whatever they take over--a hospital, a newspaper, a retail story--is going to get the short end of the stick, which means so will its employees and customers/patrons/patients. Our local newspaper was taken over by a hedge fund. All of the long-time columnists left. The price of a subscription keeps going up, but the newspaper keeps getting smaller--and a lot of the news seems to get reported a day late. So I can relate on a smaller scale to what these people were going through. It's an eye-opening book.