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Tanzania: Sad Moment

The Africa, One Country at a Time project continues with a post on Tanzania. Tanzania is a bright spot, a welcome change from looking at a string of nations with real problems. I was looking for movies about Tanzania and came across GLM, a Web site all about movies in Tanzania and Burundi. It has… [Read More]

Today is the last day of the blogathon

And the last day of Chase’s free coin-counting service. And so, I am going to take my giant bag of coins to Chase rather than write an inspiring post. It counts. That’s the downside of the blogathon – a lot of the posts are light on content. The upside is getting back in the groove… [Read More]

An ongoing appreciation for Barbarians at the Gate

I like to show the movie Barbarians at the Gate in finance class because it is such a strong illustration of corporation finance: decisions about introducing a new product (the ill-fated Premier cigarette) and reinvesting in the bakery business; dealing with sunk costs (Premier); valuing cash flows; agency problems with management and shareholders; decisions about capital structure; and what happens… [Read More]

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