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Un-Taxing Times, Approximately

www.DieBrokeBlog.com The federal estate tax, also dubbed the “death tax” by some, will be repealed for 2010, at least as of this writing.  This means that wealth transferred upon death, regardless of amount, will incur zero federal taxes.  Or, expressed…

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…