Daniel Ackerman
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269 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Daniel Ackerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Investors tend to be the ones with an appetite for that kind of risk.
As for the companies receiving those loans, Gerald Cohen of UNC says, A significant amount of private credit has been in the software industry.
Which, he says, shouldn't be a surprise.
Software firms are often startups too small to sell bonds or may not meet requirements for bank loans.
Cohen says the problem right now is that software companies are threatened by the development of artificial intelligence.
Those fears caused share prices for private credit managers to drop in recent weeks.
By itself, that's not a huge deal, says Columbia's Laura Veldkamp, but... Maybe this is the canary in the coal mine.
Veldkamp says there could be ripple effects, like remember those big banks, the ones too big to fail?
Veldkamp says they sometimes lend to the very private credit managers who make those riskier loans.
And while we're nowhere near a private credit collapse... The concern is that this is just the beginning and that this is a more widespread phenomenon.
But, she says, it's still too early to tell.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
Little Blue Macaron in Raleigh, North Carolina, sells its namesake colorful cookies.
Browned butter vanilla, lavender and honey, almond and berry jam.
But owner Allison Vick has been selling a lot less of them lately.
Instead of ordering a latte, they'll get drip coffee.
And Vick says this isn't just a winter drop-off.
So instead of pushing new products during the slow season, Horowitz says she's seeing retailers step back a bit and look at the bigger picture.
Allison Vick at Little Blue Macaron has been doing all of the above.
She recently partnered with another local business to host a terrarium-making class in her cafe.
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