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The Lead Left Picks: Your Summer Reading List

As we reach our end of August break, it is an annual tradition here at The Lead Left to give readers our recommended summer reading list. Based on our perusal of the best-sellers that went to the beach house in Quogue, or were pool-side at Watch Hill, or on blankets at the Cape, see below for our candidates…

Are We Back to 2007? (First of a series)

What is the scariest sentence in the English language? If you’re a parent dropping off your four-year old at summer camp (as we did last Friday), a good candidate is, “Daddy, today we’re learning archery!” For bankers monitoring leveraged markets these days, it seems like the equivalent phrase of fear is, “We are back to…