Press Release
Private Equity
Press Release
Meet the REITs: The Tax-Supported Driver of Higher Costs in Nursing Homes, Hospitals, Hotels
Article
How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Evidence shows that REITs are financial actors that aggressively buy up property assets and manage them to extract wealth at taxpayers’ expense.
Press Release
Are Private Equity Fund’s Values Too Good to be True? Take a Lesson from the Spider and the Fly
Article
Private Equity Funds’ Claims of Strong Performance Are Based on a Mirage
Investors should not be fooled by the myth that private equity investments provided outsized returns over the last 13 years.
Issue Brief
Comment Letter in Response to the FTC and DOJ’s Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF), joined by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, and United for Respect, sent a comment letter responding to the FTC and DOJ’s request for information on merger enforcement.
Issue Brief
Letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Proposal to Examine Private Equity
Letter from economist Eileen Appelbaum and Jeffrey Hooke, senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Report
Hospital Ownership and Financial Stability: A Matched Case Comparison of a Non-Profit and Private Equity Owned Health System
In this paper, we explore the importance of different hospital system ownership structures by comparing a non-profit system and a PE owned one
Article
Envision Healthcare Hits the Skids
Backed into a corner financially, the private equity–owned physician staffing company could put doctors and patients at risk.
Report
Working Paper: Financialization in Health Care: The Transformation of US Hospital Systems
This paper examines the process of financialization as it has emerged in the healthcare sector, with particular attention to hospital systems.