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Learning (Long "Best Of" Lists)

Airport Revenue Disrupted by Uber & Lyft

Connecticut is So F*cked

Illinois Pensions (Long Equities. Literally)

Lawyering (Points for...Honesty?)

Trickle Down from Auto Disruption (Short Insurance)

A Brutal Week for Toys R Us (Short Giraffes)

Interest Rate Increases + Tax Reform = ?!? (Short High Leverage Ratios)

Taxi Medallion Disruption Continues

Digital Media (What is Dead May Never Die)

Page Load Tracking = SAVAGE (Google & Facebook Dominate)

Retail I (Spending Surprises to the Upside)

The "Amazon Effect" Now Subsumes Inflation

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Rentech WP U.S. Inc.

Westinghouse (Get Off My Lawn)

Oil & Gas (Long Proven Operators & Production)

Millennials (Long the "Great F*ckening")

Is Charming Charlie's Bankruptcy a Canary in the Coal Mine?

Retail Happenings of the Week

New Chapter 11 Filing - Expro Holdings US Inc.

SunEdison (Participation Trophies Abound)

Steinhoff is a Hot Mess

Toys R Us Reported to Consider Closing 100 Stores

New Chapter 11 Filing - Global A&T Electronics Ltd.

Bon-Ton Skips Interest Payment ($BONT)

U.S. Postal Service Makes Changes

Notable (Gaming, Guns, Fees and More)

Short the Impulse Buy?

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Cobalt International Energy Inc. ($CIE)

Retail in 2018

Toys R Us & Executive Compensation (Long Anger)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Orchard Acquisition Company LLC (The J.G. Wentworth Company)

Tax Reform (Long Unhappiness & Therapy Bills)

Grocery (Short Mom & Pops; Long Dollar Stores & Judges)

Energy (Who Can Make Sense of it All?)

Bitcoin (Bust Out the Big Guns. Literally.)

Chart of the Week II: Tax Plans Compared

Chart of the Week: China's Mobile Internet Usage

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - PhaseRX Inc. ($PZRX)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Dextera Surgical Inc. ($DXTR)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Charming Charlie Holdings Inc.

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Global Brokerage Inc. ($GLBR)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Herald Media Holdings Inc.

Dov Charney is Back, Baby!

Long Over-size Fashion

Recruiting: More Genius Ideas to Differentiate Your Firm

Lots of Pain in Radio

Worries About New York City Grow

Healthcare (Short Predictions, Long Distress)

Proctor & Gamble's Consumer Products (Long DNVB Disruption)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC

Toys R Us Plan to Pay Execs Makes Waves

Fast Forward: Breitburn, Faraday Future, Patriot National Inc., Etc.

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Walter Investment Management Corp.

The Health of Malls

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Shiekh Shoes LLC

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Cumulus Media Inc.

Toy Shop Owners Skeptical of Toys R Us' New Plan

New York City in Trouble?

WeWork & Westfield Corporation

Increasing Downgrades in the Education Space

Automotive (Short the B2B Business Model)

A Break for HCR Manorcare

Fashion (Short LA's Denim Market)

Gawker: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Venezuela in a Nutshell

Mostly Non-Black-Friday Retail Report (Macy's, J.Crew, Signet Jewelers)

Retail (Pop-Ups Abound - Even Porn Pop-Ups)

Is Digital Media in Trouble?

Hedge Funds = Growth Opportunity?

Investment Banking: Restructuring Advisory

Busted Tech: TechStop

Bitcoin (Long? Short? Who the Eff Knows.)

Busted Tech: Synchronoss Technologies Inc. Selling for Liquidity

Auto (Long Distress)

Amazon vs. the Internal Revenue Service

Recruiting & Business Development (Long Innovation)

U.S. Postal Service Cannot Handle Amazon

Fashion (DNVBs = Distressed Opportunity?)

Fast Forward: (Nobel Group, Global Brokerage Inc., J.G. Wentworth Company, Bon Ton)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Maurice Sporting Goods Inc.

TAKEAWAYS (Restaurants)

You Had One Job (Duck for Cover, Bro)

Professional Fees (Long Cannibalization)

Pensions & the PBGC

Is Digital Media in Trouble?

A Surprising Week in Retail Ahead of #BlackFriday

Fear of Chinese Sinks PE Exit of US-based Aluminum Company

Fashion (Short Victoria's Angels)

Local News + Bankruptcy = Salacious

Hold that IPO: MPM Holdings

Oil & Gas Consolidation is Upon Us

The Effect of Tech on the Labor Market

Payless Shoes = "Successful" Reorganization?

The Top 10 Companies - a History

Another Refiner on the Brink of Bankruptcy

E-Commerce - The 18 Most Valuable VC-Backed Startups

Policymakers Responsible for Retail Carnage?

Retail (Long Organized Crime)

Hedge Funds (Long Activism)

More Investment Bankers Killing It. For Now.

Professional Fees Outed in Puerto Rico

Short Hedge Fund Jobs

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - REAL ALLOY (Real Industry Inc.)

Recruiting (Short Perks That Will Disappear As Soon As Downturn Hits)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Velocity Pooling Vehicle LLC

Retail (Rise of the Retail Suppliers & Their Financiers)

Chart of the Week: Retail Default Rate

Long Sleep, Short Sears?

Short Grocery, Long Dividend Recaps

Distressed Healthcare: Short Grandma

The US Postal Service Could Use Bankruptcy

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - B. Lane Inc. (d/b/a Fashion to Figure)

Automotive & "Talking Your Book"

Busted Beauty: Giants Show Some Slow Down

New Chapter 11 Filing - Pacific Drilling S.A.

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Styles for Less Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - ExGen Texas Power LLC

New Chapter 15 Filing - Odebrecht Oleo E Gas S.A.

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Bestwall LLC

Oil & Gas M&A Activity is All the Rage

Distressed IP: Vanity.Com Sells for Pretty Penny

The Baupost Group LLC likes SCANA Corp.

Busted Restaurants: Eatsa

Airline Pilot Shortages Abound

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Armstrong Energy Inc.

Chart: Lyft's Projections Don't Bode Well for Auto

Rewind II: Amazon + Private Equity = Toys R Us Bankruptcy

Rewind I: Wage Increases Squeeze Profits

Charming Charlie = Ghost of Christmas Past?

Amazon's Disruptive Force...

Recent Feedback - The (Hard) Business of Eating

Southeastern Grocers = Award Winning Ice Cream

Masters of the Universe (Long Certain Investment Bankers)

Commercial Real Estate (Retail)

Automation (Long Robots, Short Humans)

Unicorns (Short the Hype)

Unicorns 2.0 (Scooping Up Retail)

Toys R Us (Long Trickle-Down Effects): Mattel & Hasbro

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Vasari LLC (d/b/a Dairy Queen)

First Energy Solutions Headed for Bankruptcy?

Sears Canada = Hot Mess

Distressed(?) Healthcare: Tenet Healthcare Battered this Week

A Rare Post-Reorg Equity Star: Peabody Energy Inc.

Great Tweet: Bon-Ton Stores Gets (Short-Term) Lifeline

Chart: Masters of the Universe 2.0 (Evercore/Moelis/Houlihan)

Dividend Recapitalization (Like, Seriously, Why Not?)

Rewind (Oklahoma)

Retail (Short Copycats)

Commercial Real Estate - NYC Edition (Long Creative Statistics)

New Chapter 11 Filing - M&G USA Corporation

Chart of the Week: Increased Consumer Loan-Loss Provisions

Amazon vs. Walmart (Regular Entry)

Fast Forward (Concordia International Corp., Harvey Gulf International Marine, Charming Charlies)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Think Finance LLC

Disruption (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon)

The (Hard) Business of Eating

New CBCA Proceeding - Concordia International Group

Retail.Captain-Obvious

New Chapter 11 Filing - MAC Acquisition LLC (aka Romano's Macaroni Grill)

Walmart Gives Retail a Brief Reprieve

Retail.AI - JC Penney Edition

Unrestricted Subsidiary Shenanigans: iHeartMedia Version

Retail.ICE

New Chapter 11 Filing - Castex Energy Partners LP

Mark to Market (Short Academics & Long Optimism)

Gearing Up for Auto Distress

Oil & Gas - No Good News

Grocery.Effed

Vultures Are Swarming Around Houston Distressed Real Estate

Weinstein Co. = Bankruptcy?

Puerto Rico General Obligation Debt Continues Down

Cov-Lite Loans Continue in Record Numbers

Toys R Us is Getting Desperate

Chart of the Week: Energy Outlook

Mall Operators are Getting Desperate

Notable: (Community Health Systems, Fairway Market, Nordstrom, etc.)

Sophia Amoruso's Nasty Gal Failure = Trite Lessons

Chart of the Week: Equity Volumes

Why Shake Shack Says Short Thermal Paper

Hartford Connecticut is Getting Closer to Bankruptcy

Distressed Real Estate on the Rise

Amazon > Costco

Caesars = "One of the Great Messes of Our Time"?

This Week With Puerto Rico

Tweet of the Week: TPG Loves What Apollo's Up To

Is "OverBoarding" Really a Thing?

Fast Casual Restaurants Are Feeling the Pain

Retail (Busted Narratives: Fast Retail)

Distressed Investing (Short Bonuses)

What's New with the Diva of Distressed??

Busted Tech: Once-Bankrupt Quirky is Back

Chart of the Week I: Lenders B*tch About Loan Characteristics

New Chapter 11 Filing - GST AutoLeather Inc.

Oil & Gas (Long Reason...for Once)

Letgo Powering Up with More Venture Capital Funding

Mall Shenanigans (Short short-termism) & New York City Retail

Will TOM SHOES Be Another Victim of Private Equity?

Notable (Molycorp, PwC, Sears, Toys R Us, Westinghouse)

Guitar Center Continues its Downward Slide

Chart of the Week: PREPA Bonds Take a Dive

Lots of Noise About Cov Lite Loans

Grocery (What is Dead May Never Die)

Bank Regulation (Too Big to Short)

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Appvion Inc.

Distressed Boutique Investment Banks (We Hope You Already Shorted This One)

Sports Direct = Active in US Sporting Goods Market

Disruption. In Human Terms. Part 2.

Chart of the Week II: The Rise in Corporate Debt

Chart of the Week I: The Rise of Corporate Cash

Uber's Carnage: the Rise of Distressed Taxis

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Exelco North America Inc.

Bloomberg Finds Chapter 22s "Enticing"

Long Influencer Marketing (Despite Ourselves)

How the Supreme Court Helped Amazon

Private Aviation is Crash Landing

Notable (Cov Lite Loans, Delaware Bankruptcy Filings & More)

Is the US Headed for a Pension Crisis?

Paper Distress (in professional independents we trust)

Music Disruption (Short the Rock Star)

Community Health Systems Sounds Like Hell

Employment (Short Payroll Processors & Payday Lenders)

Fallout from Toys R US & More Distressed Retail

Correction: Will Equifax Go Bankrupt?

The List of Bloodied Retailers is Longer Than Our J$&%$#!

Suniva & SolarWorld May Land Their Hail Mary

E-Commerce (Toys): Amazon Sells Nearly 2x More Than Walmart and 2.5x More Than Toys "R" Us

Amazon's Growing Reach

Disconcerting Trends in Healthcare

Notable (Amazon, 3D-Printing, International Distress, Nordstrom, Taxis)

Sports (Long Geeks, Short Jocks): NFL Down. E-sports Up.

Millennial Views of Consumerism

Is Home Depot Really Immune to Amazon?

Peloton is Expanding its Experiential Retail Presence in NYC

Private Equity Recruiting is Bananas

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy & CCAA - Toys "R" Us Inc.

Part of Toys R' Us' Failure? Amazon Plays the Long Game

Maybe Hartford Ought to Rip the Bandaid Off

Amazon Better Watch its Back

Inept Retailers are Doing Amazon's Work for it

PIRCH is a Cautionary Tale for Retailers

Disruption. In Human Terms.

That Escalated Quickly: Toys R' Us Continues to Fade...

Busted Tech: Early Call on Bodega

Amazon is Coming After Liquor Delivery

Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Aerosoles International Inc.

Incredulous: Meal Kits as Savior for Grocers? C'mon.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Seadrill Ltd.

Will Hartford Connecticut File for Bankruptcy?

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Vitamin World Inc.

Geoffrey is on the Ropes: Toys R' Us is in Trouble

Minimalistic Consumption by Inheritance

Long Regulatory Disruption of "Gig Economy" Disruption

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - WYNIT Distribution LLC

Charts: Drilling in the Permian

ICYMI: Contura Energy Pulled IPO

Does Uber Need to Watch its Back?

Meatheads Everywhere Lament: Vitamin World Going Bankrupt

New Chapter 11 Filing - Portrait Innovations Inc.

That Escalated Quickly

JCrew's Mickey Drexler: Better Late than Never...?

New Chapter 11 Filing - Model Reorg Acquisition LLC (aka Perfumania Inc.)

Chart of the Week II: Oil & Gas High Yield Issuance Going Up

Chart of the Week: Liquidity Stress Index Declining

Millennials LOVE SUVS, Apparently

Smoke Em if You Got Em, Connecticut

No Surprises: Seadrill Headed Towards Bankruptcy

New Chapter 11 Filing - Peekay Acquisition LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - The Engy Group LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Knight Energy Holdings LLC

Return of American Apparel

The "Amazon Effect" is Overrated

Amazon's YOY Shoe Sales Growth Explains a Lot

Associate Work/Life Balance

Notable (Sears Canada, Joyus, Community Health Systems & More)

Increased Shipping Capacity Augurs Increased Shipping Distress

Supervalu is Super F*&ked.

Chart of the Week III: Monthly Crude Oil Production

New Chapter 11 Filing - TerraVia Holdings Inc.

Chart of the Week II: Berkshire Hathaway's Growing Utility Bandwidth

Chart of the Week I: Covenant Lite Loans

REIT CEOs Continue to BS Us All

Bebe Store Program = Closed. Bebe Influencer Program = Open

Discounted Balls: Sports Retailers Getting Crushed

Nordstom Going Private?

GNC Holdings Inc. Needs Some Protein Powder

Venezuela's Untenable Debt Situation

Go F*ck Yourself, Amazon

Contura Energy = Latest Post-Reorg Equity

Renewable Energy: Texas Leading the Way

Gawker.com Can Be Yours!

Lots of Distressed Fund Activity

Post-Reorg Equities, Oncor, & Elliott Management

Where is the Restructuring Work?

New Chapter 11 Filing - Lombard Public Facilities Corporation

Death of Malls

Amazon Relentlessly Investing to Crush Other Retail

Chart of the Week IV: Service-Sector Inflation is Softening

Debt Restructuring Activity is (was?) Robust

Starbucks Shuts Teavana: F*cks Simon Property Group in Process

Grocery (Long Granola)

Chart: Consumer Loan Charge-Offs Are Rising

Supply Chain: Short Grandma's Sewing Machine

Chart of the Week III: Oil Jobs

Hedge Fund (Tax) Preppers

Natural Gas is Over-Supplied. Hedge Funders Are Effed.

Chart of the Week II: Distressed Universe

Malpractice by Greenberg Traurig?

Coal Export Numbers are UP! But Still Ugly AF.

The Curious Case of Jefferies LLC v. Banro Corp.

Chart of the Week: Loan Covenants Weakening

NRG Energy To Sell Renewables

New Chapter 11 Filing - Rent-a-Wreck of America, Inc.

Busted Tech: Shyp It Yo Own Damn Self!

Jamie Dimon's Epic Rant

Sears Canada Continues Liquidation

Welcome to the Party, Hibbett Sports Inc. $HIBB

Chart of the Week III: Dividend Recaps (Payless)

Peace Out Douchey Expensive Jeans

Chipotle is SO SCREWED

Notable (Abercrombie, Halcon, Sears Canada & More)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Prospector Offshore Drilling S.a r.l.

Is Venezuela the Next Argentina?

Chart of the Week II: General Obligation Yields (Illinois)

Fast Forward (Highway to the Danger Zone) $HOG

Credit Cards Companies Are Contributing to Retail Hurt

If Apple is Screwed, We're All Screwed

Platforms II (Used Clothing)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Dynamic International Airways LLC

Platforms (China Takes It Up a Notch)

Chart of the Week: Amazon Becoming First Stop for Search

European Retail & Journalistic Begging

Disintermediation = Bankruptcy

TheRealReal > 2nd Time Around. We hope.

Short Murray Energy's Litigation Strategy

Busted Tech ("Moneyed A$$holes")

Retail (IPO'ing Like a Boss) $CURV $GOOS

Healthcare Distress Heats Up $QHC

Peace Out Hampton Creek

Nothing Shocking About Albertsons' Call

Peace Out Yieldcos

Fast Forward (Music, Music, Music)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Beaulieu Group LLC

Shorting Retail Just Got Easier

Oncor Battle Looms. Pop Some Popcorn

Distressed Real Estate = New "It" Thing

New Chapter 11 Filing - Cocoa Services LLC

Gracious Home Bastardizes Warby Parker Name For Own Benefit

New Chapter 11 Filing - BICOM NY LLC

Trickle Down Retail-nomics

New Chapter 11 Filing - Morehead Memorial Hospital

Co-Retailing is All the Rage

The DOJ Is Looking at Restructuring Bankers

See Ya Fairway Markets, Wouldn't Want to Be Ya

hhgregg's Intellectual Property Worth F*ck-All

Professionals (Long Consolidation)

Connecticut is Suffering from Shrinkage

Hartford Connecticut is SOOOOO Effed

Like #Tech, Corporate Restructuring Has a Gender Imbalance

Healthcare (Short PETITION shorts)

Electric Cars & Car Insurance

Chart of the Week: US Personal Consumption is Declining

Jawbone Won't Be the First/Last in Busted Tech

Puerto Rico (Our Word is Our Bond)

Notable (Loan Defaults, Oncor, Staples, Takata Corp)

Tweet-Trolling Jawbone, Soundcloud & Fitbit

Chart of the Week III (Retail Defaults)

Retail (Outlets Be Hurtin)

Chart of the Week II (Short Gum Manufacturers)

Nerds (Long Techies, Short Cosplayers)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Foundation Healthcare Inc.

Rewind I: More Bricks-to-Clicks (Away & ThreadUp)

New Chapter 9 Filing - The Kennewick Public Hospital District

Busted Tech (If Teespring T-Shirts = Tech)

Body Slamming (Always Long): The Gawker Media Saga Continues

New Chapter 11 Filing - Wordsworth Academy

New Chapter 11 Filing - True Religion Apparel Inc.

Notable (Mutual Funds, Crack Smoking & Solar Lobbying)

Retail (Short Charm Bracelets)

New York City (Available for Rent)

Grocery (I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream)

Dov Charney = Bankruptcy Pro

Puerto Rico (Jaws fans) & the Virgin Islands

Chart of the Week: GDP Numbers

Casual Dining (Long the Bread Stick)

The Takata Corp Effect

Notable (Div Recaps, Golf, Molycorp, Sycamore Partners, WeWork)

Chart of the Week III: OK Earthquakes

Add Yeti to the Clicks-to-Bricks Trend

Wind Power Rising (Cue Rick Perry)

Add Casper to the Clicks-to-Bricks Trend (Cameo: 50 Cent, Carmelo, Kevin Spacey)

Venezuela, Bond Ethics & Argentina (Short Ethics)

Restaurants (Long the Paradox of Choice)

Chart of the Week II: KKR Credit's Share of Shadow Banking

Amazon (We Repeat: How Many Bankruptcies Will Result From it?)

Professional Fees (Long Kirkland & Ellis)

What Comes Next? (Healthcare? More Oil & Gas? More Retail?)

Retail Fallout on CMBS Continues $SHLD

Throwing Down the Gauntlet (aka UPS & Surcharge Pricing)

Food CEOs Biting the Dust

Sporting Goods (Amazon Can Derelict Our Balls)

Dividend Recap Settled Against Golden Gate Capital

Chart of the Week: Oil & Gas High Yield Spreads

Oil Field Services (Not Out of the Woods)

REITS (Per Goldman, Literally Short GGP) $GGP

New Chapter 11 Filing - Takata Corporation

New York Yankees (Short Aaron Judge (& Parking Bonds))

Chart of the Week II: US Commercial Bankruptcies Are on the Rise

Liquidators (Short Them)

New CCAA Filing - Sears Canada Inc.

Chart of the Week I (Digital Music)

Awesome Job Available at Sears (Are You Frikken Kidding Us?)

Notable (Amazon, Energy XXI, Key Energy, Penn Virginia Corp.)

Bankrupt Solar Companies Are Pressuring @POTUS Towards Protectionism

Professionals Fees (bill baby bill)

Fast Forward: Takata & Armstrong Energy

Illinois (W.T.F.)

When a Moving Company Tips Off a Busted Tech Company

How Many Companies Will Amazon Bankrupt?

Banks Are Lending to Oil Companies Again

Busted Banks (Interest rates wha what?)

Go Long Alternative Energy. #MAGA!

Retail (Who the hell can keep up?)

Private Equity (retail, no mas)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Keystone Tube Company LLC (A.M. Castle & Co.)

New Chapter 15 Filing - Alitalia Societa Aerea Italiana S.P.A.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Cornerstone Apparel Inc. (d/b/a Papaya Clothing)

Notable (Dodd-Frank, 3D-Printing, Post-Reorg Equity, etc.)

Moody's Stomps on Retail. Again.

New Chapter 11 Filing - The Original Soupman Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - CGG Holding (US) Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - GenOn Energy Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - FirstRain Inc.

No Sympathy for Mickey Drexler & J.Crew

Private Equity Dogs = No Fortune 500 $KKR $BTU

Chart of the Week III - Alternative Working Arrangements

Funded E-Commerce & New Brick-And-Mortar II (TheRealReal)

Job Trends (Short Junior Associates/Analysts)

Chart of the Week II - Wind Power is Rising

New Chapter 11 Filing - CST Industries Holdings Inc.

Fast Forward (A&M Castle, HCR Healthcare, iHeartMedia)

A Rare Retail Surprise to the Upside

New Chapter 11 Filing - The Gymboree Corporation

Funded E-Commerce & New Brick-And-Mortar (UNTUCKit)

Distressed Investors Are Bullish on China Distress

Chart of the Week I - Electric Vehicles Rising $TSLA $F

Casual Dining Continue to Take a Beating $IRG

Oil at $80. We Think Not.

Andrew Left and Short-Selling a Company Into Bankruptcy

Notable (Goldman Sachs, Intelsat, Linn Energy & Goodwill Stores)

Oil Trends Are Looking Bleak

Hartford Connecticut is F*cked and Houston/Dallas Are Dealing

The Future of Publishing?

New Chapter 11 Filing - Ignite Restaurant Group

Illinois is Effed. Connecticut Ain't Much Better.

Sheesh...the Hedge Fund Business is Rough. $VRX

Sustained and Busted Retail Narratives

Distressed Shipping Trend Quietly Continues

Grocery Meet Tech. Tech Meet Grocery. (Blue Apron & Flashfood)

Canada is Cracking

Mary Meeker's Internet Trends. This is Real Disruption, Summarized

Short Restructuring Professionals Who Suck at Marketing $FCN

New York Commercial Real Estate is F*cked

Retail: It's All About Merchandise. Peace Out Mickey Drexler (J. Crew)

Divided Recaps Under Attack in Payless Holdings Case

Slight Improvements in the Labor Force Participation Rate

Chapter 11 Filing - Rooster Energy Ltd.

New Chapter 15 Filing - U.S. Steel Canada Inc.

What Are Commercial Rents Doing?

Much Needed Board Evolution (in Retail)

Chart of the Week II: Not All REITS Are Created Equal

The Future of Oil is Looking Bleak

No One Man Should Have All That Power.

Insolvent States & Competency Crises

Uber = Bernie Madoff?

Add Sprig to the List of Busted (Food Delivery) "Tech"

Bullsh*t Out of Auto Land

Kudos to Kiehl's for Solid Direct Marketing

Notable (FTI Consulting, LeEco, Skip Barber Racing School)

Bonus Chart: Retail Square Footage Per 1000 People

Rewind: New Retail Models

Solar Troubles

Enduring Retail Narratives

#RetailApocalypse Narrative Powered by Snobs?

Chart of the Week: NYMEX Crude Prices

New Chapter 11 Filing - 21st Century Oncology Holdings Inc.

Chart of the Week II

New Retail Model Gets Funding - $SPG

Chart of the Week

Fast Forward: Short Sephora & Lululemon & Whoever Makes Sheets These Days

International Tourism Trending Down Bigly

Wind Power Rising

Sovereign Debt is Getting INTERESTING

Retail Bloodbath = Good News for Industrial Real Estate

Are Avocados To Blame for Busted Retail?

Lots of Busted #Retail Narratives Part II ($SMRT)

Paper (Reruns)($VRS)

Short Music Festivals

Reasonability of Fees

New Chapter 15 Filing - Mood Media Corporation

Groceries - Long the Germans

Customer Acquisition Costs - VC-style ($DNKN)

Solar Bailouts Are All the Rage ($RUN, $SPRW, $TSLA)

Autos Are Taking a Beating

Notable (3D Printing, Elliott Management, Sycamore Capital Partners, etc.)

Puerto Rico is a Hot Mess

Lots of Busted #Retail Narratives

New Chapter 11 Filing - EB Holdings II Inc. (Eco-Bat)

Pay off debt? Nope, buy a stupid blanket.

Let's Take a Lyft to the Hertz Bankruptcy Hearing ($HTZ)

Smoking-Crack.live (Eddie Lampert Edition)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Tidewater Inc.

SolarWorld AG = Latest Solar Bankruptcy

Chinese E-Commerce owns American E-Commerce ($BABA, $JD, $AMZN)

Retail I (Credit Card Frenzy) - $WFC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Gulfmark Offshore Inc.

Pharma.live - Starring Wu-Tang Clan & a Massive Douche

New Chapter 11 Filing - Mountain Creek Resort

Chart of the Week: The Rise of Venture Debt

Nuclear Power Issues (Toshiba & Westinghouse)

New Chapter 11 Filing - rue21 Inc.

Municipal Issues

Professional-Services.ai

Notable (Contura Energy, Effed Education, Footwear, Memorial Production Partners)

The Apple Effect - $P, $AAPL, $FOSL

Busted Tech (Food Delivery)

Busted Distressed Funds

Sam Zell is a...

New Chapter 11 Filing - Katy Industries Inc.

Busted Tech: Post-IPO ($CLDR)

Renewables are Unstoppable

New Chapter 11 Filing - Marsh Supermarkets Holding LLC

When Do the Oil & Gas Chapter 22s Start?

New Chapter 11 Filing - Oconee Regional Health Systems Inc.

Minimum Wage Increases = Bankruptcy

Lots of Recent Activity in Healthcare ($CYH)

Millennial Jackasses Prefer Potato Chips to Casual Dining ($BLMN, $IRGT)

Bankrupt Companies Love Blaming #Obamacare

Alternative Use Cases for Malls ($UPS, $RNP)

Trump Aint #MAGA for Gun Sellers ($CAB, $V)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Searchmetrics Inc.

IHeartMedia Music Festival > #FyreFestival

A Canadian Property Bubble? ($HCG, $OCN, $APO, $BX)

An Auto Dumpster Fire. Thanks @Uber. ($HTZ)

Chart of the Week II: S&P 500 Short Interest by Industry

Grocers Are Feeling the Pain

More in REIT-Ville $SRC $NNN $GGP

#DeadMalls Popping Up Across Canada Too

Third Party Releases in Bankruptcy

Bankrupt Companies Love Blaming Obamacare

Chart of the Week: Tax Return Spending

We've Reached Peak #Retailapocalypse ($ARCC $MNI)

Italian Airline Troubles (Alitalia)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Chellino Crane Inc.

Amazon Prime Membership Growth = Bananas

New Chapter 11 Filing - Central Grocers Inc.

New Filing - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Chart of the Week: Smartphones Have Room to Grow

Interesting News (Weed, Quora, Dead Malls & More)

Feature of the Week: More Earnings (Simon Property Group & Starbucks)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Ameriforge Group Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc.

Notable (Goldman Sachs, Puerto Rico, Lazy Media & More)

What the Pros Say (04/23/17)

Notable (Hostess Brands, Shoes.com & More)

New Chapter 15 Filing - Boart Longyear Ltd.

Diving into Retail IV (Entrepreneuring Like a Boss)

Diving into Retail III (Liquidating Like a boss)

Did We Miss the Historic Retail Tipping Point?

Real Estate & Retail

Interesting Restructuring News

Diving into Retail II (Discounting Like a Boss)

Busted Tech III (Chinese version)

Diving into Retail I (M&A'ing Like a Boss)

Busted Tech II (Unicorpse bankruptcies coming?)

Yes, Co-Warehousing is Now a Thing

Chart of the Week I: Top Five Market Caps as of 03/17

Busted Tech (Fraudulent AF)

Out-of-Court Restructuring - Iracore International

New Chapter 11 Filing - Adeptus Health Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Suniva Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Panda Temple Power LLC

New Chapter 22 Filing - Venoco LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Halt Medical Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Unilife Corporation

Congratulations

What the Pros Say (Week of 4/9/17)

Bonus Chart of the Week: Retail Closures (Comparison)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Agent Provocateur Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Rupari Holding Corp.

Chart of the Week II: China's Distressed Debt

Questioning Venue

Chart of the Week: Auto Loan Debt Climbing as Share of Household Liability

New Chapter 11 Filing - Ciber Inc.

Notable

Interesting Restructuring News

Notice

What the Pros Say (Week of 4/2/17)

New Chapter 11 & CCAA Filing - Payless Shoesource Inc.

Congratulations

Notice

Platforms

Interesting Restructuring News

Chart of the Week II

New Chapter 11 Filing - Angelica Corporation

Notable

What the Pros Say (3/26/17)

Chart of the Week (Platforms)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Westinghouse Electric Company LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Aerospace Holdings Inc.

Busted Hedge Funds and Fund BS

New Chapter 15 Filing - Ocean Rig UDW Inc.

Busted Tech

Interesting Restructuring News

Notable

What the Pros Say (3/19/17)

Does Anyone Pay Back Debts Anymore?

Interesting Restructuring News

Brief (and Limited) Reality Check

New Chapter 11 & CCAA Filing - SquareTwo Financial Services Corporation

Notable (3/19/17)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Ezra Holdings Limited

New Chapter 11 Filing - Bostwick Laboratories Inc.

News for the Week of 3/12/17

What the Pros Say (3/12/17)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Sungevity Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Goodman Networks Inc.

Lessons Learned

The Retail Bubble

New Chapter 11 Filing - Gordmans Stores Inc.

Private Equity Track Record

New Chapter 11 Filing - Gander Mountain Company

New Chapter 22 Filing - General Wireless Operations Inc. (f/k/a Radio Shack)

New Chapter 11 Filing - Aquion Energy, Inc.

What the Pros Say (3/5/17)

New Chapter 11 Filing - hhgregg Inc.

News for the Week of 3/5/17

A Call to Action

New Chapter 11 Filing - Answers Holdings Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - California Proton Treatment Center

New Chapter 11 Filing - Vanity Shop of Grand Forks Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - BCBG Max Azaria Global Holdings LLC

What the Pros Say (2/26/17)

New Chapter 11 Filing - EMAS Chiyoda Subsea Limited

New Chapter 11 Filing - Lily Robotics Inc.

Getting Creative With Some Brick and Mortar

News for the Week of 2/26/17

What the Pros Say (2/19/17)

Why You Should Care About 3D Printing

News for the Week of 2/19/17

New Chapter 11 Filing - Michigan Sporting Goods Distributors Inc.

What the Pros Say (2/12/17)

Everything Now 20-40% Off

News for the Week of 2/12/17

New Chapter 11 Filing - Marbles Holdings LLC

New Chapter 22 Filing - Eastern Outfitters LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - United Road Towing Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Ltd.

News for the Week of 2/5/17

Caspar the Friendly (Non-)Restaurant

What the Pros Say (2/5/17)

New Chapter 22 Filing - Wet Seal LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Vanguard Natural Resources

New Chapter 11 Filing - LMCHH PCP LLC

New Chapter 11 Filing - Azure Midstream Partners LP

New Chapter 11 Filing - Toisa Ltd.

What the Pros Say (01/29/17)

The Phantom Menace

News for the Week of 01/29/17

What the Pros Say (01/22/17)

The Great Escape

New Filing - Forbes Energy Services Ltd.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Avaya Inc.

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Limited Stores Company LLC

New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Memorial Production Partners LP

What the Pros Say (01/15/17)

A Look Forward

News for the Week of 01/15/17

News for the Week of 01/22/17

New Chapter 11 Filing - AtopTech Inc.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Homer City Generation, L.P.

New Chapter 11 Filing - Chieftain Sand and Proppant

Things That Caught Our Attention in the Waning Weeks of '16

News for the Week of 01/08/17

What the Pros Say (Week of 01/08/17)

New Filing: Bonanza Creek Energy Inc.

New Chapter 15 Filing - Forge Group Power Pty Ltd.

New Filing - Transmar Commodity Group Ltd.