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Baseball’s Fiscal Cliff

Source: Cleveland Scene Magazine Baseball is a game of skills and probabilities. Baseball is also “six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours,” as Boston Globe’s Ray Fitzgerald describes it. So, if you like geeky analysis, economics, or baseball, then…

The Curious Case Of Capital (Mis)Allocation

Star Trek (Next Gen): Jean-Luc Picard A growing number of folks are becoming aware that the performance of most mutual fund managers over an extended period does not exceed that of benchmark indexes such as the S&P 500. More specifically,…

Q1 2013 M&A Activity

Source: TheiBanker.com According to Thomson Reuters and the DealBook, edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times, the pace of worldwide M&A during the first quarter of 2013 was relatively slow.  The summary, highlighted below, reflects announced transactions…