Techtonic *

The concentrated power of tech and finance relies, in part, on private equity. This industry controls newspapers, hospital systems, supermarket chains, apartment complexes, even municipal water systems and fire departments. Megan Greenwell explains how it works in her disturbing and important book „Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.“ Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”