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I've been thinking a lot about the noodles in the chicken noodle soup served at the Fairfield County Fair. Every year, for many, many years, the Amanda-Clearcreek schools – or, I guess, the band boosters, or the PTA, or some such school organization – have served up homemade chicken

People accuse me of ranting about private equity. Guilty. I've become a dreaded dinner guest because, at some point, maybe after a couple of glasses of wine, I am easily baited into animated monologues about leveraged buyouts, carried interest, and "special dividends." Other guests back away

A few years ago, I was asked by staffers in then-Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown's office to speak to Democratic Senators at their weekly lunch in the Capitol. Of course, I agreed. Before going I asked the advice of Victor Fleischer, a tax law expert. He'd

Have a look at the photo above. I took that in 2015 or 2016 in the showroom of what was comically called Everyware Global, but what every single person in Lancaster, Ohio called Anchor Hocking. Everyware Global was a private equity creation, a mashup of two venerable brands, Anchor Hocking

After my dad graduated from Collinwood High School in Cleveland with grades so marginal that my grandmother blamed them on his pursuit of Betty Francis, the local "sweater girl" (look it up, kids), he went to work in the same tool and die outfit where my grandfather worked.

Last week there was a lot of talk about the Gilded Age and Trump's State of the Union declaration that he has ushered in a new "Golden Age" of America. The Gilded Age, in fact, has been discussed a lot in recent years, often in the