Read a post in VentureBeat about how VC's are upset about the fees that major i-banks like Goldman Sachs charge small companies for IPO'ing. They feel that the larger banks have traditionally demanded large fees (e.g. $7M in a $100M IPO), while smaller banks in the syndicate that do most of the work get a much smaller piece of the fees. Reminds me of the research I saw last fall about how IPO's from the large investment banks (based on the league tables) actually perform worse than those from smaller investment banks.
I found this opinion piece ( Democrats aren't innocent bystanders ) interesting on how both Democrats and Republicans share responsibility for polarizing the electorate and undermining some of its faith in democracy. It references two other posts that were pretty good as well: The Disease of Delegitimization The Weimarization of the American Republic The second article is really long and heavy on history. But given all of the comparisons people make between the current times and those of post-WWI Germany, I found it interesting to dive in to understand where the comparisons are coming from and how close we really are. The short answer is that we aren't that close (phew). Seems like post-WWI Germany was incredibly fragile. This was a good excerpt that summarized it: So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boo...
Comments