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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

In 2007, firms extracted — the private equity firms extracted $20 billion from companies in the form of dividend recapitalizations. It had been prevented, had been barred from that before because of this fiduciary duty idea and also because of the opacity of these instruments. But so you had these dividend recaps.

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