Commentary
Loans 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…
Read MoreHow Big is the Middle Market? (First of a Series)
As great mysteries of life go, it’s not quite in the same category as what’s the universe made of, how…
Read MoreRefi Madness
If sheer volume means anything, total syndicated loan activity in the US for the first half of the year was…
Read MoreFall Risk
It was probably mission impossible, but we gamely tried this week to complete a personal Top Ten list. This one…
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