Broadly Syndicated Loan

Dollars and Scents

News reached us over the weekend of a new trend in baseball. Apparently several Chicago Cubs relievers are applying copious amounts of perfume as a good luck charm. Turns out players from last year’s Kansas City Royals did the same thing. And they won the World Series. The Cubs manager tweeted, “Aroma still matters.” A…

The State of the Broadly Syndicated Loan Market

“Investors Turn Sour on Risky Deal Debt. So read a front page WSJ headline this past Monday. The thesis of the article was that slowing investor appetite was hurting “the corporate buyout boom.” Three transactions were cited as evidence of this trend – one in the pharmaceutical sector, a specialty chemicals company, and a barge…

Beach Blanket Bingo

How many readers remember this classic Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello beach party vehicle from 1965? We think any movie with Buster Keaton, Don Rickles, and Linda Evans (as Candy Kane) in the same cast deserves special mention in a summertime column devoted to odd pairings. We also couldn’t help wondering what an updated version of that…