Brendan Ballou on Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States
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In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of Plunder, Brendan Ballou, about American capitalism’s dire inevitabilities.
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Brendan Ballou is a federal prosecutor and served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Previously, he worked in private practice, and before that, in the National Security Division of the Justice Department, where he advised the White House on counterterrorism and other policies. He graduated from Columbia University and Stanford Law School.
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