Thanks to Analyst Forum (one of my regular stops), I just came across a pretty good blog on Private Equity called The Private Equiteer . It has a lot of posts that go through the basics of the private equity world ( here's a list of many of them). I'm adding it to the blogroll. ... Read t ... Read more

Like many new parents, we use a battery-powered swing to help the Unknown Baby Boy fall asleep for his naps. Our model comes with a musical option that plays an assortment of tunes. They range from "Ode to Joy" to some pretty irritating, calliope-sounding music that could be easily be heard at the ... Read more

The Unknown Daughter is also known by most of my family as "The Math Princess." She seems to get math concepts more quickly than almost anyone else at her grade level. Well, there is one one boy in her class who is just about at her level, but she has a better Rear Naked Choke than him (knowing what ... Read more

This posting is WAAAAY late, but It's still good. As a "perfesser" type, I always enjoy a good visual aid. Back in April President Obama had announced that he's try to cut $100 Million in spending from the budget. Here's a great illustration of what that means: ... Read the fu ... Read more

Robert Haugen is one of (if not THE) best-known figure in the behavioral finance (i.e. "markets are not efficient") camp. He wrote one of the earliest books on the topic in 1995 (The New Finance) and runs a quantitative finance shop based on much of his research. In a recent paper with Nardin Baker ... Read more

At 1:55 this morning, the Unknown Son (his name is Jonathan, by the way( eased away and stopped breathing. Our son has finally let loose the bonds of earth and gone home. No more suffering, no more limitations, and no more cancer. He now rests in the lap of the Father with his cousins Jacob and Jenn ... Read more

Inside Higher Education profiles the tenure case of Boyce Watkins , an untenured assistant finance professor at Syracuse University. He was recently denied tenure at Syracuse. What make his case interesting is that he's been quite possibly one of the highest-profile assistant professors at ... Read more

This tough to write. The recent post on the Unknown Son's treatment was somewhat encouraging. In the blink of an eye, this one turns our lives around 180 degrees. This morning, Unknown Son tried to go for a walk around the hospital unit (the walking helps expand the lungs, and would speed his reco ... Read more

The Unknown Wife is a morning person, and I'm a night owl. So, I usually get the later feedings for the Unknown Baby Boy. He gets fed around 8 or 9, and then I hang out until his next feeding (sometime between 11 and 1). The little guy usually sleep for 4 hours, and the Unknown Wife takes the next ... Read more

I just realized that I have at least six students that I know of sitting for the CFA exams in a couple of days. Three are sitting for Level 1 - all either graduated this past month or last December, and three are sitting for Level 2 (they graduated either last June or last December). There are a cou ... Read more