Commentary
Spot-lite on Cov-lite (Second of a Series)
News reached us last week that the great mathematician, Monty Hall, passed away at the age of 96. Better known…
Read MoreSpot-lite on Cov-lite (First of a Series)
Our story last week of the hundred-year old fruitcake captured readers’ attention. Tributes to this underappreciated treat poured into the…
Read MoreFeeding the Beast
The world’s oldest fruitcake was found in Antartica in a building left from the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. The…
Read MoreLoans à la Mode
Following our story last week on skyrocketing costs of natural vanilla flavoring, fans of confectionary innovation alerted us to another…
Read MoreFlavor of the Month
Turns out there’s nothing plain about vanilla. Back in March a huge storm – cyclone Enawo – struck Madagascar, a…
Read MoreBack to School
For many of us the post-Labor Day week means reacclimating to the concept of being in front of a computer…
Read MoreBye-bor
By all accounts it was worth waiting for. The 10th Procrastination Research Conference, held last month in Chicago, featured sixty…
Read MoreHow Big is the Middle Market? (Last of a Series)
So far we’ve used three methodologies to size the universe of middle market loans. Using annual issuance data and average…
Read MoreHow Big is the Middle Market? (Third of a Series)
Last week we looked at sponsored middle market loan volume to come up with an idea of how large the…
Read MoreHow Big is the Middle Market? (Second of a Series)
To get a better handle on the total universe of middle market loans, let’s define what we mean by the…
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