The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Plus Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp and contributor Matt Frankel discuss what to do if your consumer debt is getting more expensive. 29, 2023 Ricky Mulvey: You love to see an all-time high, except when it involves credit card debt. Consumer debt is certainly higher than it was but not high by historical means.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We have two companies that are heavily indebted. They carry a lot of debt on their balance sheets. Warner Brothers has been moving toward paying down that heavy debt it carried since its demerger from AT&T. It had about $55 billion of debt or so. But as you mentioned, the debt on both sides is certainly significant.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded. Consolidated Communications is a leading fiber-first provider and it will grow nicely as a private company with BCI/ Searchlight as its partners. Institutional investors see private debt as an area of huge opportunity in the coming years.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. They became able and obviously interested in living more and more and more in debt. So, in the dynamics of it, once you took debt, your preference has changed completely. Then you hate equity ….

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

Ministers and regulators are said to be concerned that Britain ’s biggest water supplier, which has 15 million customers in the capital and along the Thames Valley , may be unable to service its huge debt pile. Last year, the company received a £500m cash injection from shareholders who had agreed a further £1bn in principle.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: Yeah, and then we took on some debt. If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about some of those more recent acquisitions. 2020, you buy Legg Mason. I think it was an all-cash deal, $4.5

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. We have all this debt and then they just refinanced their debt and like, and you know, bought a lot of it down because they could sell stock at very high prices. And I love that.

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