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Author: Rob Peters

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SEC Exercises Patience in Enforcing New Lease Accounting Standard

Leased office space with retail options

Parents have an instinctive sense of which household rules to enforce ruthlessly (“don’t lie” comes to mind), and which to be more lenient with (curfews, maybe). As it turns out, the same can be said of the Securities and Exchange Commissio...

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Silicon Valley

SEC Presses Pause on NYSE’s Direct Listing Plan

Silicon Valley

Plenty of wonderful fads come out of Silicon Valley. But lots of strange and even dangerous ones do too: soylent diets, dopamine fasting, doomsday prep and an overreliance on black turtlenecks. Which category do direct listings fall into? T...

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Child Care Crisis a Hot Topic for Public Companies and Workforce

A Children's Playground with umbrellas and slides

You’ve probably heard about the contentious conference calls happening this summer. Calls in which administrators get peppered with questions about how they’ll handle COVID-19 in the fall. Calls in which parents grill leadership on school c...

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Moneyball SPAC Seeks Sports Bargains

Moneyball Savant Seeks Bargains at Sports SPAC

Moneyball SPAC Seeks Sports Bargains

As general manager of the Oakland A’s, Billy Beane was so good at discovering undervalued assets that Michael Lewis wrote a book about him and Brad Pitt played him in a movie. That’s some good bargain hunting. Now, he’s doing it again, only...

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Bill Ackman Prepares Mother of All SPACs

Blank Paper Cheque - Financial Services

Bill Ackman wants to bag an elephant. The hedge-fund billionaire with the flashy and often successful bets is now getting behind a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. And in typical fashion, he’s going big—preparing to raise $4 bi...

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