In the 1990s, private equity was considered a “cottage industry,” but it has since exploded into a multitrillion-dollar asset class that focuses on the vast universe of private companies.

Lawmakers have inserted a line into Donald Trump’s new budget bill that would reward Wall Street firms with billions of ...

Today, I’m talking with Megan Greenwell, a former top editor at Wired and Deadspin, about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.It comes out on June 10th ...

Aaron Rice has two logos tattooed on his left leg: one from the plumbing business he co-founded more than a decade ago, and another from the private-equity-backed company that recently bought it ...