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21 Sep Film Fund-amentals: Moneyball: Theory and Practice

Posted at 12:14h in Film Fundamentals

A couple of years ago, when Moneyball was about to start filming and Sony pulled the plug on the production, I predicted that it would end up as a George Clooney flick like Leatherheads. OK, the smart-aleck who wrote that was wrong, and I will...

18 Jan “You won’t know who to trust.” (from Sneakers)

Posted at 08:14h in Credit Spectrum

In early 2004, we were asked to join a professional support team to help a new equipment lessor get financing through the structured market. The premise of the deal, the team, and our role in it, were not new. The endgame, to get a monoline...

07 Nov The Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the US Financial Structure: A Common Theme

Posted at 16:42h in Credit Spectrum

A cautionary tale about finance The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, due to unforeseen resonance effects, is more than a watershed in the history of bridge design and civil engineering. It is an object lesson in the need to fully understand a problem before designing...