A Wall Street Journal bestseller, "These Are the Plunderers" is the result of research by Pulitzer Prize-winning financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner. The authors explore the insidious world of private equity, revealing how it endangers our entire economy. The book highlights the role of a small group of prominent Wall Street financiers and their government supporters, who exploit excessive charging and dubious practices. It analyzes the three-decade history of corporate takeovers in America and the increasing dominance of private equity. The authors investigated key figures in the field, revealing how they buy businesses, load them with debt, and then plunder them for profits. They demonstrate how companies controlled by private equity ultimately fail to provide benefits to employees and the local economy. "These Are the Plunderers" is an accurate and devastating critique of a powerful force in Western capitalism, revealing the greed and consequences of private equity.