Recent Articles
By David M. Freedman
Finance
Investing in the Great Lakes Region: The Upper-Midwest Economic Revival is Gaining
(Interview with John Austin, director of the Michigan Economic Center). Financial Poise, January 10, 2024
https://www.financialpoise.com/investing-in-the-great-lakes-the-upper-midwest-economic-revival-is-gaining/
A History of Crowdfunding: Including Rewards, Donation, Debt, and Equity Crowdfunding Platforms in the USA
With Matthew R. Nutting. Updated November 2020.
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/history-of-crowdfunding
Corporate Structures and Their Effects on Equity Offerings
Financial Poise, January 20, 2025
https://www.financialpoise.com/corporate-structures-and-their-effects-on-equity-offerings/
How To Target Equity Crowdfunding Deals
Financial Poise, January 15, 2025
https://www.financialpoise.com/how-to-target-regulated-equity-crowdfunding-deals/
Risk-adjusted Return in a Nutshell
Financial Poise, June 21, 2023
https://www.financialpoise.com/risk-adjusted-return-explained/
Evaluating Deal Terms in Crowdfunding Investments, Part 1: Straight Equity
Financial Poise, November 1, 2022
https://www.financialpoise.com/crowdfunding-deal-terms/
Evaluating Deal Terms in Crowdfunding Investments, Part 2: Convertible Debt and Future Equity
Financial Poise November 14, 2022
https://www.financialpoise.com/deal-terms-crowdfunding-2/
More Financial Poise articles
https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-faculty/david-m-freedman/
Stock Analysts Are Self-serving? No Way!
Blog post, November 2020
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/stock-analysts-are-self-serving-no-way
Convertible Debt Basics
Blog post
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/convertible-debt-basics
LLC Basics for Angel Investors
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/llc-basics-for-angel-investors
Law
What is Free Enterprise? How an 1810 Supreme Court decision Defined Free Enterprise in the USA
Financial Poise, December 2022
https://www.financialpoise.com/what-is-free-enterprise/
McCulloch v. Maryland and the Famous Supreme Court Cases that Changed Our Economy
Financial Poise, November 2019
https://www.financialpoise.com/famous-supreme-court-cases/
The Constitutional Convention, Ratification, and Bill of Rights
Review of four books
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/the-u-s-constitutional-convention-ratification-and-bill-of-rights-1787-91
Nuremberg: the Greatest Trial in History
Review of three books and three films
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/nuremberg-the-greatest-trial-in-history
Bent Cops & Corrupt PDs
Review of five books
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/bent-cops-and-corrupt-pds
Marketing
The Fair Use Doctrine: What Writers and Marketers Need to Know
With Joseph V. Norvell, attorney
https://dave40816.wixsite.com/freedman/post/the-fair-use-doctrine