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How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? (VIDEO)

Explaining the “magic" of private equity in eight simple steps.

Robert B. Reich

April 11, 2012

In this video from MoveOn.org, Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, explains in eight simple steps how private equity partnerships make money. Spoiler alert!—the answer involves cutting costs, jobs and benefits.

Erin Schikowski

Robert B. ReichRobert Reich is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and the former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. His latest book is Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America.


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