BMW: a German carmaker that built cars in dollars to tame the exchange rate
BMW paired currency hedging with building cars where it sold them; by 2024 its US plant built 396,117 vehicles, but 2025 tariffs tested the…
Airbus and Boeing: two opposite bets on how people would fly, and why the smaller plane won
Airbus bet on the 555-seat A380 and built 251, nearly half for Emirates; Boeing bet on the 787 and, despite years of delays, had…
Toys “R” Us: a leveraged buyout and a debt it never escaped
A $6.6 billion buyout in 2005 left Toys "R" Us with roughly $5 billion of debt and $400 million a year in interest, and…
Lehman Brothers: leverage, mortgages and the largest US bankruptcy
Lehman Brothers reported record profits for 2007, then filed for bankruptcy on 15 September 2008 with about $639 billion of assets and leverage of…
Enron: how accounting tricks hid a failing business
Enron reported $979 million of profit for 2000, yet within a year it had restated its accounts by $586 million and filed for bankruptcy,…
Yahoo Finance: quick quotes, financials and history for listed firms
Free quote pages with key statistics, recent financial statements, historical prices, analyst data and holders. Longer histories and downloads need a paid plan.
Damodaran Online: free industry data on margins, betas and multiples
NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran publishes yearly industry datasets on cost of capital, betas, margins, multiples and risk premiums, free to download.
FRED: graph and download economic data from the St. Louis Fed
The St. Louis Fed's free database of economic time series. Find a series, adjust the graph, download the data and get email alerts on…
