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Two IPO Academic Information Resources
By William Cate
Published August 1999
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About eight years ago, an Eastern University published an IPO
study. The study reviewed one hundred attempts to do an IPO. It compared
S-18 filings. The S-18 was the earlier version of the SB-2 filing. The
study concluded that less than half the companies that started the IPO
process were funded. It showed average costs for the IPO process to be
about US$750,000.
I'm interested in a current IPO study. I doubt that the SB-2 form
has cut costs. While there are more IPOs today, the interest in doing IPOs
is greater. So far, I haven't found a recent study.
However, I've found a useful academic website for IPO studies. The
URL is [http://linux.agsm.ucla.edu/ipo/iporefs.html] Many academic studies
have little relevance to the operation of the Market. University writers
carefully document their works. If you use their references, you can often
find data on the topic you are researching. Bookmark the URL. It could
prove useful.
Another IPO URL website: [http://linux.anderson.ucla.edu/ipo/] This
website is hosted by the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA..
It's worth bookmarking.
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Five Myths About Inflation
A classic definition of inflation is any increase in the money supply. Understanding inflation is vital to anyone seeking investment profits or attempting to build a successful company. As with most basic issues of the global economy, inflation is surrounded by myths and misinformation.
Recession Planning
The clouds of a 2006 Recession are starting to form on America's horizon.Politicians know that Recessions or Depressions are bad for their reelectionchanges. Bad economic times tend to create unemployment among the nice folksholding office at the time of economic stress. You can expect the Governmentto do everything possible to delay a Recession until after the November 2006election. However, the American economy is currently caught in an upwardmoving inflation and a Recession would still the fires of a runawaycurrency. The Real Estate Bubble may be about to burst. And, America'sfinancial institutions appear to be in increasing trouble over failedderivative bets.
African Aid
Africa, like everywhere else in the world, has its fair share of honest, intelligent; hardworking people who want to see their families have a better standard of living. Unfortunately, most of these people are living below the poverty line. The reasons that Africa, with all of its natural resources, is an economic basket case are complex. They start with the 16th Century Africans' failure to adopt an effective immigration policy. The result was the European immigrants divided up the continent without regard to historic tribal boundaries. The modern result has been tribal wars waged with modern weapons from the Sudan to Rwanda.
