Finance Roundtable

I'm a big Muppets fan, so I thought this was hilarious

The Unknown Mother-In-Law has a cottage on a lake in northern Vermont (Unknown Wife's father built it years ago). I'm not much for the place, and had a lot of work to do. So, the rest of the Unknown Family went up there for about a week, and ...

Tony Snow passed away this past week, and his funeral was today. He was one of the good ones, and I'll miss him. From what I've seen of him and what I've read, he seemed like one of the good ones - a very happy ...

You're gotta love an ad that uses old Godzilla footage to slam PE firms - if just for the sheer shlock factor (say that three times fast...).

I was curious about the McCain reference in the ...

Whether or not (and how) professor quality affects student performance is an ongoing question in academia. Unfortunately, there are a lot of statistical problems involved in testing these effects. Here are a couple:
Students self-select into professors classes. So, better students might ...

PE firms often are described as nothing more than financial engineers - according to their detractors, they buy firm, load them up with debt, pay out recapitalization dividends, and leave lifeless, over levered shells.

Or do they?

A couple of reports by accounting firm Ernst & Young over ...

Here's the latest one for my door. It doesn't fit me, but it did fit MY advisor in grad school.

One of my original purposes in starting this blog was to create a place to keep track of things I came across that might be useful in my classes. I just found another one: "Cash Flow Is King: Cognitive Errors by Investors" by Todd Houge (of U of ...

A happy July 4th to all the Financial Rounds readers out there.

Start by reading the Declaration of Independence here. Then, to get a good feel for the costs born by ...

Unknown Son had his regularly scheduled chemo round yesterday. Unfortunately, it was followed by nausea and vomiting starting about 5:00 and continuing throughout the night. So, this morning it was back to the clinic for anti-nausea meds and fluids (that much vomiting leads to dehydration, which isn't a ...