Term Sheet
Following the big money from Silicon Valley to Wall Street
Ronald Reagan's former budget director talks about his new book, what Republicans got wrong and why private equity is the great deformation. More The SEC showed up late to the social media party with its new guidance, and investors now have more questions than answers about how companies can share material information. More A judge tossed many claims in the biggest Libor-related class action suit, but New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has not given up his pursuit. More Using Goodfellas to understand the Dell situation; China's export boom may be a fraud; and, What happened to the Internet productivity miracle? More Aim high, seek out key networking meetings and pick yourself a winner. More Schapiro is joining the consulting firm Promontory and says she won't lobby government officials on her clients' behalf. What will she do? More How an injection of foreign investment can help any economy -- including ours. More Not all money is created equal. More Corporations get cold feet on tax reform. Also: Apple's mysterious case of the missing moonshot. More SEC identifies social media problem, but fails to propose adequate solution. More Dell's top comp is having a tough day. Could it affect the final buyout price? More Stephen George leaves Capricorn to form an alternative investment firm. More Michael Dell tells Dell employees what may come next. More Study by Princeton University economics professor letting Wall Streeters off the hook for financial crisis has a dubious premise. More From entrepreneur to EIR to... mayor? More Dell tells shareholders that it extracted a higher price from Silver Lake... and also that it's got big problems. More Also: Hedge funder quits to bet on baseball. And how TurboTax maker fought free, simple tax filings. More A new arrest at an SAC fund brings the government closer to Steve Cohen's door. Now might be a good time to become a family office in order to avoid future scrutiny. More Not every VC deal can be a hit. And that's when the real work begins. More Toy retailer scraps $800 million stock offering. More On Thursday, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high. Stocks will have to leapfrog a drop in earnings for the index to climb even higher. More LACERS excludes private equity from possible firearms investment policy. More The lending giants are swooping to the rescue of struggling borrowers just as the housing market turns the corner. More The man who sold himself in an IPO; Series A bottlebeck tightens; and, Amazon and GoodReads discuss merger. More How the Oracle of Omaha turned a 18% rise in Goldman's shares into a 66% return for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. More The revolution will not be crowdfunded. More PC maker reimbursing due diligence costs for potential buyers. More Cypriot banks unlock their doors; Love the bank, hate the banker; and, The golden age of railroads... is back. More Cyprus is more than the sad story of a small economy which allowed its banks to grow irresponsibly. It is also points to shifts in the determinants of European stability. More Yahoo isn't getting a bargain on Dailymotion, but someone else might have.
More In Heinz, investors gobbled up tons of debt at unprecedentedly cheap levels and with lenient terms. More States expect modest budget surpluses this year, and just like U.S. companies, they're not exactly loosening their purse strings. More Tax/profit ratio keeps falling for Dow 30; Why doesn't iCloud "just work?"; and, BlackRock exits the direct private equity biz. More Dell memo suggests amicable parting with former M&A boss David Johnson. More Public pension official accused of profiting from tech merger. More Despite an eleventh-hour deal, the fallout from the Cypriot crisis is far from over. More Dell auction remains punctuated by question marks. More The case for Icahn's Dell bid; Elon Musk plans major Tesla announcement; and, Yahoo's Summly deal makes no sense. More Dell gets rival offers, but neither would really take the company private. More Basketball boss seeks to combine his new and old careers. More Amidst the Fed's efforts to boost the economy and hot market for risky debt, CFOs say bring on the downgrades. More Here are five techniques smart companies are using to narrow their focus and adjust their global market strategies. More New federal regulations make online currencies act more like traditional forms of cash. More Founders face new challenges as companies scale. More Tech IPOs will return. Just have some patience. More Vehicle sales are often seen as a more accurate measure of consumer sentiment than retail or home sales. They show that tax cuts don't seem to be hampering Americans yet. More Tax worries delayed spin-out of $31 billion investment group. More Marin Software went public today. Its CEO explains why. More British buyout firm under pressure. More Blackstone is considering other Dell CEO candidates, just in case. Oracle's Mark Hurd is on the short list. More It's not a question of whether we should have such a tax. It's a question of how big it needs to be to ensure that it's effective. More Plus: Adria Richards, PyCon, and how we all lost; Clothing store without employees; and, Google's Google problem. More The Cyprus banking crisis underscores the crucial need for Europe to put standardized rules in place for the protection of insured depositors. More The former head of America's largest public pension has been indicted for fraud, but key questions remain. More Construction of apartment complexes still makes up 33% of all residential construction, much more than the pre-housing crisis average of 20%. More Russian Internet mogul Dmitry Itskov is looking for backers for the world's first immortality research center. More Amazon inks $600 million pact with the CIA; why Andy Rubin and Android parted ways; and, Microsoft's bribery investigation. More The Cyprus bailout illustrates why short-term tactical compromises are no substitute for proper, albeit much more difficult, strategic decision-making. More Remembering Apple's original venture capitalist. More When a bailout is worse than the illness. More New York has evolved into a tech hub, but it still can't hold a candle to Silicon Valley. More Federal Reserve officials dinged JPMorgan and Goldman for being off on their stress test results. Wells Fargo, however, got a pass. More Borrowing is still relatively cheap, so more potential homeowners may dive into the market. More Silicon Valley has fallen out of love with the initial public offering. More Leslie Pfrang to open New York office for Class V Group. More A current HBS student explains why his peers plan to leave Boston upon graduation. More European leaders have strong incentives to try and smooth over this 'crisis' by signaling that Cyprus is a unique and extreme case. More Samwers and Fabian Siegel launch €150 million VC fund. More Avenue Capital names Rich Furst as chief investment officer. More Wall Street is heavily invested in bank debt across the European Union. If banks begin falling as a result of the Cyprus "bailout," investors in the U.S. will feel the loss. More Karl Rove asks Silicon Valley for help More Former chief investment office head Ina Drew blamed London traders for $6 billion loss. More A fledgling website with some big-name backers, Intrade allows regular people to invest -- not bet -- on the current events they know best. More Hedge fund affiliates will pay more than $600 million. More Scott Griffith resigns, just hours after company is acquired. More Enterprise-focused VC firm raising first fund. More A Senate report on the London Whale trading losses shows that J.P. Morgan needs to make major shifts at the top to move past this mess. More 
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