Unknown Knowns: Adventures in the New Economics

THE PRVATE EQUITY BLACK BOX

In an environment of low interest rates and low returns, private equity was advertised as a clever means to increase returns in a difficult investment environment. Private equity allows investors to get access to assets that are not traded on the public markets and so, in theory, can offer them exclusive, higher returns. But the private equity structure also risks that a lack of transparency can be used to cover up bad investments and this could even create financial and economic instability. Is private equity driving property bubbles in multiple countries by allowing for a loophole to get around post-2008 bank regulations? Is private equity a blessing or a curse?

Featured participants:

• David P. Goldman - Deputy editor of Asia Times, Washington, Fellow of the Claremont Institute
• Theo McDonald, Irish journalist and policy researcher

Moderator:

• Philip Pilkington, Macroeconomist and Visiting Fellow, Danube Institute 

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