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Musings on Markets
AUGUST 19, 2024
In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 20, 2023
In the four decades that I have been teaching finance, I have always started my discussion of risk with a Chinese symbols for crisis, as a combination of danger plus opportunity: Over the decades, though, I have been corrected dozens of times on how the symbols should be written, with each correction being challenged by a new reader.
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Musings on Markets
JANUARY 10, 2025
In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Tax rates 4. Financing Flows 5.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
In the four decades that I have been teaching finance, I have always started my discussion of risk with a Chinese symbols for crisis, as a combination of danger plus opportunity: Over the decades, though, I have been corrected dozens of times on how the symbols should be written, with each correction being challenged by a new reader.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 18, 2023
In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 12, 2021
Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.
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