Commentary
Top Ten Myths About Private Credit (Second of a Series)
Responding to last week’s discussion of the relationship between age and happiness [link], several readers asked what country has the…
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A Dartmouth College professor has found that middle age is even more depressing than we thought. The good news? Things start…
Read More2020 Hindsight
Remember your summer internships in high school? Neither do we. There’s a vague recollection of delivering mail for a financial…
Read MoreOf Bubbles and Gum
Her name was Lola. At least that’s what Danish archeologists are calling the female whose DNA was discovered in birch…
Read More“The Best Place to Be” (Last of a Series)
The name George Laurer may not be familiar to our readers. But his invention certainly is. Mr. Laurer, who passed…
Read More“The Best Place to Be” (Third of a Series)
A dictionary of Latin words, called the “Thesaurus Linguae Latinae,” was begun in 1893 by a team of German researchers.…
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As a long-term observer of (and participant in) the credit markets, we’ve learned the most interesting times are not when…
Read More“The Best Place to Be” (First of a Series)
Earlier this month your correspondent traveled to Tokyo and Seoul, in part to assess how institutional investors view private debt…
Read MoreFinding the Line: Senior Stretch vs. Unitranche (Second of Two Parts)
Speaking of long flights [link], news reached us of an overweight passenger punished for traveling in the main cabin. Or…
Read MoreFinding the Line: Senior Stretch vs. Unitranche (First of Two Parts)
On a fourteen-hour flight from Seoul, we sat next to the head of a very successful private credit shop. Besides…
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