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What if the US Securities and Exchange Commission never brings another enforcement case? What if it’s like “ahh, go ahead, do all the fraud you...
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I have never been to business school, but I gather that a certain amount of the curriculum involves pretending to do business stuff. You get a...
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Every so often around here, I feel compelled to mention my all-time favorite US Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action, the MAAX...
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I wrote last week that, “if you are a big bank, somebody somewhere in your organization is pretty much always doing something that looks a bit...
A good corporate finance rule of thumb is, “if you run a company, and people are paying much more for your stock than it is worth, you should...
A central problem in securities regulation is that you want companies to be able to raise money, and you want ordinary investors to have access to...
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One useful intuition of modern finance is that stocks are all kind of the same. Oh they’re not, they’re not, this isn’t true. But lots of stocks...
Who do you think would be better at designing a simple and delightful user experience for a credit card: Apple Inc., or the average bank? If you...
It is sometimes useful to think of all of Elon Musk’s ventures as one big company. I like to call it the Musk Mars Conglomerate, because it seems...
In financial markets, there are people called “market makers.” 1 A market maker, as the name implies, makes things called markets. But the market...
This is not investment advice, but these days there are a number of platforms where you can bet on the US presidential election. Offering election...
The thing about most traditional financial frauds is that they have to end. You get money from investors, you spend it on watches and gambling, you...
If you are an ordinary retail investor and you make hundreds of millions of dollars day-trading Tesla Inc. options, and you go to a financial...
Maybe the hottest topic in finance in the last few years has been private credit, and we’ve talked about it a lot around here. I often think of...
We talked on Monday about the proposed merger between DirecTV and Dish Network, in which DirecTV will pay $1 for Dish and also assume its $9.75...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, which is yesterday. Unlike many financial industry employees, SEC...
There’s a guy in Kentucky whose job is running volleyball tournaments and whose hobbies are (1) day-trading stocks and options and (2) talking to...
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A very long time ago, I was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. This was so long ago that, when I started, Goldman was not yet a bank...
“Who controls a company,” I often ask around here, and generally I am writing about some weird corner case in which the standard legal rules...
If you had a robot that could tell you what stocks would go up, what would you do with it? Here are, I think, the two plausible answers: The key...
Here are two equity derivatives trades that you might do if you wanted to be a big shareholder of a public company. First, you might want to buy...
The basic rule is that the chief executive officer of a company works for the board of directors, and the directors work for the shareholders....
What is Warren Buffett? Like, if you were trying to describe and recreate his essential features, how would you do it? I guess a decent answer is...
As climate leaders descend on New York City for Climate Week, much of the attention will be on how to get the Empire State’s renewable energy...
A lot of problems in finance come from fire sales and contagion, and a lot of regulation is organized around preventing them. Most classically,...
Here’s a little thought experiment. Let’s say that you run a tech startup that is looking to do an initial public offering, and you would like to...
Here’s a bad idea. You’re a big public company, and you have some debt: A year ago, you sold $1 billion of bonds, due in 10 years, that pay, say,...
Some of the work in the financial industry involves finding and fostering bad counterparties. If you are a stock market maker — you buy stock...
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Let’s say that you are a market maker and you trade a bunch of small, dumb, thinly traded stocks. The last trade in Amalgamated Cannabis & AI Inc....
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