The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything

216 Pages·2012·1.16 MB·English

by  Jason Kelly

Contents
A Visual Tour of Private Equity
Deciphering Private Equity
Prologue
Chapter 1: Find the Money
Chapter 2: All the Money in the World
Chapter 3: The L Word
Chapter 4: “When Was the Last Time You Bought a
Toilet Seat?”
Chapter 5: Modern Art
Chapter 6: Put on Your Boots
Chapter 7: Aura of Cool
Chapter 8: Hundreds and Billions
Chapter 9: Take This Exit
Chapter 10: The Taxman Cometh
Chapter 11: It’s a Steve, Steve, Steve World
Chapter 12: Not-So-Private Equity
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Kelly, Jason, 1973—
The new tycoons : inside the trillion dollar private equity industry that owns
everything/Jason Kelly.
p. cm. – (Bloomberg Press series)
p. cm. – (Bloomberg Press series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-20546-4 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-118-22851-7(ebk); ISBN 978-1-
118-24081-6 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-26567-3 (ebk) 1. Private equity. I. Title.
HG4751.K45 2012
332.6—dc23
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