Republicans, and Forina, opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and continue to oppose paid sick-leave and pay-check equity.
And that is positive for bondholders, giving them some assurance that the Fed will keep inflation in check, while equity investors are not threatened with a sudden sharp rise in interest rates.
My personal favorite is using Tracour to check which equity advisers manage to the be most wrong on a one-day basis.
Next come talks with management, which often means an overseas trip, followed by revisions to her models along with checks against equity research from other sources.
As a result, any buyer of Hasbro would need to offer up a big equity check.
"Basically it's a reality check," Gerhard Schwarz, an equity strategist at Unicredit in Munich, said.
And K.K.R.'s writing an equity check for more than half the price of its $7.2 billion acquisition of Samson could be another.
To write the accompanying $4 billion equity check, buyout firms could team up — in another replay from yesteryear — or bring co-investors in.
Miramax's buyers, by contrast, are expected to borrow against receivables of about $300 million, thus writing an equity check of about 55 percent.
Cerberus and Ampersand put up $590 million for the deal in 2004, and Cerberus cut an equity check of about $80 million for majority control.
Dave Checketts, who led a group to bid for the Rams, said buyers needed "a big equity check" to avoid using too much debt.
