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Barbarians no more: Private equity is giant now, and a bit boring
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When Blackstone went public this week in 2007, Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, was on hand at the New York Stock Exchange. He told CNBC the private equity firm’s move to the public markets might spell “the end of capitalism as we know it.”
It didn’t. But…
This story appeared on semafor.com, 2025-06-19 17:54:38.