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        "uri": "/2022/07/21/private-credit-giants-curb-buyout-lending-spree/",
        "title": "Private Credit Giants Curb Buyout Lending Spree",
        "byline": "Lisa Lee & Kiel Porter",
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        "prettyDate": "July 21, 2022",
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        "summary": "It's a big shift: As recently as June, a group led by Blackstone provided about $5 billion of debt to fund the LBO of software maker Zendesk.",
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        "uri": "/2022/07/06/private-lenders-are-offering-cheaper-debt-than-wall-street-banks/",
        "title": "Private Lenders Are Offering Cheaper Debt than Wall Street Banks",
        "byline": "Rachel McGovern, Lisa Lee & Giulia Morpurgo",
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        "prettyDate": "July 06, 2022",
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            "name": "Rachel McGovern, Lisa Lee"
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        "summary": "Direct lenders are lavishing risky companies and private-equity firms with capital at rates below what's available in the volatility-lashed high-yield and syndicated-loan market.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2022/06/03/zombie-firms-in-death-spiral-as-easy-credit-ends/",
        "title": "Zombie Firms in Death Spiral as Easy Credit Ends",
        "byline": "Lisa Lee",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "June 03, 2022",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "summary": "\"When interest rates are at or close to zero, it's very easy to get credit and the difference between a good company and a bad company is narrow. When the tide runs out, you figure out who is swimming naked.\"",
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        "uri": "/2022/01/19/kkr-shifts-benchmark-on-lbo-loan/",
        "title": "KKR Shifts Benchmark on LBO Loan",
        "byline": "Lisa Lee",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "January 19, 2022",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "Circumstances around the latest prominent move away from LIBOR, and the reaction of investors, emphasize that the market is ready to fully embrace SOFR.",
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        "uri": "/2021/09/15/first-leveraged-term-loan-tied-to-sofr/",
        "title": "First Leveraged Term Loan Tied to SOFR",
        "byline": "Lisa Lee",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "September 15, 2021",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Chicken processor prepares to be a pioneer in a market that has been slow to adopt the new interest rate benchmark.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2020/11/20/americas-zombie-companies-have-racked-up-1-4-trillion-of-debt/",
        "title": "America's Zombie Companies Have Racked up $1.4 Trillion of Debt",
        "byline": "Lisa Lee & Tom Contiliano",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "November 20, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "authors": [
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            "name": "Lisa Lee"
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            "name": "Tom Contiliano"
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        "summary": "Many fret that capital is being routed to businesses that will underinvest in growth for years, even if they recover enough to fully pay the interest on their debt.",
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        "uri": "/2019/04/04/the-brief-well-intentioned-life-of-high-yield-debt-covenants/",
        "title": "The Brief, Well-Intentioned Life of High-Yield Debt Covenants",
        "byline": "Sally Bakewell & Lisa Lee",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "April 04, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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            "name": "Sally Bakewell"
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        "summary": "Nearly 80 percent of outstanding loans lack maintenance covenants, in deals dubbed “covenant lite.”",
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      {
        "uri": "/2017/10/20/ebitda-mocked-as-borrowers-stretch-limits-on-adjus/",
        "title": "Ebitda Mocked as Borrowers Stretch Limits on Adjustments",
        "byline": " Sally Bakewell, Lisa Lee and Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg ",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "October 20, 2017",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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            "name": "Sally Bakewell, Lisa Lee"
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            "name": "Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg"
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        "summary": "Some debt offerings find ways to double earnings projections.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/20/ebitda-mocked-as-borrowers-stretch-limits-on-adjus/",
        "title": "Ebitda Mocked as Borrowers Stretch Limits on Adjustments",
        "byline": "Sally Bakewell, Lisa Lee and Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "October 20, 2017",
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            "name": "Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg"
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        "summary": "Some debt offerings find ways to double earnings projections.",
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