Ben Eisen

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If you think about when Amazon went public in 1997, it was a very tiny company. matched

Now, when you look at other tech giants that go public, Facebook went public in 2012 and it was many times the size of Amazon. matched

You see these companies are getting bigger and bigger in the private markets before they go public. matched

That really is a result of the fact that companies really can access a lot of their funding needs without going through the IPO process. matched

Well, research has shown that it's actually gotten more expensive to just complete the IPO process itself. matched

So that's one factor to consider. matched

And then getting back to that quarterly earnings report and sort of queuing up the market for matched

what to expect from earnings each quarter, that's another aspect of it that can kind of discourage companies from going public. matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Chance of a Recession in the U.S. Keeps Growing · 26 Jun 2018 podcast

Your Money Briefing. matched

Yeah, definitely. matched

We look at this model by a Spanish bank called BBVA, and they track financial and economic indicators. matched

And the model that they produce shows that the possibilities of a recession arriving in 12 months' time have climbed slightly. matched

It's still very low, and it's not suggesting any imminent recession, but you have a matched

A 16% probability of a recession now up from just about 5% in January. matched

So it's this sort of slow creep higher in expectations of a recession. matched

Yeah, I think that one of the things that this model shows is that the economic cycle is getting old. matched

It's been going on for a number of years now, and now it's continuing to heat up. matched

But it's worth remembering that years into an economic cycle, things can take a turn. matched

Yeah, I don't think you can put the cart before the horse here. matched

You've had a lot of markets volatility this year, and that's continued into June. matched

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