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A Private-Equity Boss In Four-Inch Stilettos

A Private-Equity Boss In Four-Inch Stilettos

That's Lynn Tilton up there. She runs a $7 billion private equity firm called Patriarch Partners that specializes in scooping up companies teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

On today's podcast, we visit with Tilton. And we go inside Spiegel, the catalog company Patriarch bought last year.

Download the podcast, or subscribe. Music: Lily Allen's "Take What You Take." Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Flickr.

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Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
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