How Private Equity Buried Payless
The New York Times Company · Neil Irwin · 21 min.
Finance-driven capitalism was supposed to make the economy more dynamic. A failed shoe chain shows why it hasn’t happened.
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Finance-driven capitalism was supposed to make the economy more dynamic. A failed shoe chain shows why it hasn’t happened.
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