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The Size of the Pie and the Size of the Slices: Modigliani and Miller’s 1958 Proof That a Firm’s Value Is Set by Its Assets and Not by Its Capital Structure, the Record Bond Issue by a Company Sitting on $145 Billion, the Banks Who Called Equity Expensive, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Value the Business Before the Balance Sheet
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The Cost That Makes the Claim Believable: Michael Spence’s 1973 Proof That a Signal Informs Only When It Is Differentially Expensive, the Seal a Regulator Had to Make Costly Again, the Warranty That Redeemed a Ruined Name, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Should Credit Only What Management Could Not Afford to Fake
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The Fight That Costs More Than the Prize: Maynard Smith and Price’s 1973 Logic of Animal Conflict, the Stags That Settle It by Roaring, the Ships That Turned Back a Day Before Anyone Noticed, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Should Prefer the Business That Avoided the War to the One That Won It
















