Private equity

Blackstone buys a majority stake in sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s. Fast-casual is a growing segment of the enormous but risky restaurant trade.

Skilled trades businesses, like HVAC repair and plumbing companies, are seen as stable, future-proof business models. Private equity wants in.

Trader Jared Dillian says PE firms are having problems exiting their investments, and he worries that the sector poses systemic risk.

In this week's "Make Me Smart" newsletter, we explore the NFL's decision to allow private equity to buy portions of football teams, the relationship between car weight and safety and the costs of an extremely hot summer.

A Senate committee and two federal agencies are taking closer looks at how private equity’s ownership of hospitals and physician staffing companies is affecting health care.

There's news that department store chain Nordstrom is looking to go private, after a previous attempt failed.

A private equity firm has agreed to buy Subway. It may need to close stores in the U.S., but expand overseas.

Hedge funds and private equity loans might lend like banks, but they're not regulated like them.

Private equity "is a major driver of the enormous gulf between rich and poor in this country," says author Gretchen Morgenson.

When a new operator took over an addiction treatment center in Nashville, former employees say they saw cutbacks.