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    Thursday
    Jan122012

    When Mitt Romney Came to Town

    Here are two versions of the video attack on Romney by Gingrich's Super Pac. It makes the case that in the much-admired "creative destruction" of capitalism, Bain Capital under Romney's leadership devoted itself to destruction and left creation to others.

    The 3-minute trailer:

    The full 28-minutes:

    The full version is also available here.

    For a brief explanation of the private equity business model, I recommend this Mike Konczal interview of Josh Kosman, author of The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy,

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