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May 21, 2026
In my work as an expert witness in fiduciary and securities matters, I have watched the same pattern repeat across dozens of board rooms: A pension fund trustee invokes...
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May 19, 2026
The M&A market entered 2026 with force that didn't build gradually, it released. Global volume hit $1.22 trillion in Q1, a 26% surge over the prior year and the strongest...
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May 14, 2026
After 30 years in private markets, including work at Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns, and later managing funds and advising family offices, I've come to a conclusion the venture...
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May 11, 2026
The most ironic news out of this week's Milken conference didn't come from a hedge fund manager or an investment bank. It came from the SEC.
On May 4, at the Milken Institute Global...
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May 5, 2026
Saturday, I woke up to the news that Spirit Airlines had canceled every flight and begun an orderly wind-down of operations. Seventeen thousand people—pilots, flight...
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May 4, 2026
At the second presidential debate in October 2016, Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of using a $916 million loss to avoid paying federal income taxes. He replied...
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Apr 20, 2026
Somewhere over the Mojave, at 41,000 feet, the Gulfstream leveled off and a steward set down a glass of twenty-year Scotch without being asked. My client — I’ll call him...
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Apr 15, 2026
In thirty years of reviewing fixed-income allocations for single-family offices, I have seen the same mistake repeated with impressive consistency: clients reach for a familiar yield...
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Apr 13, 2026
Something cracked in private credit this month, and the men who manage systemic risk for a living are saying so. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon's just-released 2025 annual...
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Apr 10, 2026
There is a school of thought — serious, not fringe — that holds the national debt is a symptom, not the disease. The disease, in this view, is too much tax revenue, which...