Over the trailing year, you have likely witnessed the rise of shell firms as a medium to take private enterprises public. Market analysts often use the term “reverse merger” to describe this ...

This form of taking a company public has been around for a while, but it's getting a lot of attention this year as its popularity rises. In the simplest terms, a blank check company is a public entity ...

Some commentators have criticized use of the phrase “blank check” to describe the recent vote to suspend the debt limit for more than a year. They argue that the debt limit suspension merely means ...