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A Houdini Rally

A hat tip to the Immobilienblasen blog for the cartoon and observations: “So this remains the Houdini rally — no jobs; no pricing power; no broad participation; and no volume.”

De-Leveraged Buyouts

‘The Fall of Icarus’ by artist Marc Chagall Two reports about strategic M&A and private equity were released recently.   Paul Weiss, a well-known corporate law firm, prepared a concise survey of the top 25 non-financial M&A transactions, highlighted at Research…

Do We Really Need More Cowbell?

Remember the Saturday Night Live sketch with actor Christopher Walken portraying a music producer who prods a rock band to use more Cowbell?  Quite comical.   Now, replace Cowbell with Education, and we get a sense of the laments of many…