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Bonds

Related Terms: Baby Bond Bonds are tradeable instruments ...  Read story

A Bond By Any Other Name

Whether you call them "high-yield," "low-rated," or just plain "junk" bonds, a lot of companies are finding there is nothing shoddy about public market debt.  Read story

The Art of Unhatched-Chicken Accounting

The top four banks have taken significant charges for impairment of their mortgage-servicing rights. The bottom three have not. Countrywide ...  Read story

Risk and Return

Related Terms: Bonds ; Stocks ...  Read story

Street Smarts: The Offer, Part Seven

I've just about had it. Are we going to make this deal happen, or not?  Read story

Listing The Unlisted

The late, great, new-issues boom was a bonanza for underwriters, but it has created headaches for stockbrokers, investors, and even some of the newly publ...  Read story

Guaranteed Investment Contracts

Information on investing in guaranteed investment contracts.  Read story

A New Lift For Small-company Irbs

Since the congressional reprieve last summer for most industrial revenue bonds, two innovations may make small issues more appealing to national investors.  Read story

To Sell or Not To Sell?

In November 2006, we wrote about the lucrative offer Gary Delman re...  Read story

Network: July 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read story

The Online Sleuth

A comprehensive list of sites on the Internet that business people can use for do-it-yourself marketing research.  Read story

Rating the Governors

With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote.  Read story

The Other Side Of Mutual Funds

It was with great dismay that I read "Play Money," by Donna Sammons Carpenter (Financial Tactics, December 1984). It was terribly misleading and represen...  Read story

Money Market Instruments

The money market is the arena in which financial institutions make available to a broad range of borrowers and investors the opportunity to buy and sell v...  Read story

The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of

To make a fortune on America's mountain of credit-card debt, this CEO had to go broke first.  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive guide to more information on subjects and articles found in the Sept. issue of Inc. magazine.  Read story

In Search of the Small-Business Bible

Report on current books on business; 25 best business ideas; on-line resources for start-ups.  Read story

New Hope For Irbs

Two new methods of marketing industrial revenue bonds (IRBs) hold out prospects of helping more growing, small businesses raise financing at below-market ...  Read story

What's Your Company Worth? Ask an Algorithm.

A start-up called YouNoodle is developing an algorithm that, it claims, can precisely calculate the value of a business.  Read story

The New Quiet Money

How one company found investors in the private capital market.  Read story

The Secret World of IPOs

A senior Inc. writer takes you through the uncharted territory of small-company public offerings.  Read story

Paper Route

A SAN FRANCISCO LENDER FINDS A WAY TO OPEN UP THE $225-BILLION COMMERCIAL PAPER MARKET TO SMALL COMPANIES.  Read story

Case Study: To Take Private Equity or Not

Raising private equity seemed like the best way to rev up Sunrise Windows. But were the stakes too high?  Read story

The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job

A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap.  Read story

America's Fastest-growing Private Companies

By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can…to make s...  Read story

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