During the 1980s, I can recall a time when it seemed as if everything you heard about corporate America were reports on corporate takeovers.  The evening news was saturating the airwaves with key terms like: leveraged buyouts, hostile takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the like.  There was so much news about it that Hollywood became the social media commentators with movies like, “Other People’s Money,” “Wall Street,” and my personal favorite, “The Secret of My Success.”

So what has happened since then?  Have takeovers become a thing of the past?  Or has Hollywood and the news media simply moved on to other pressing corporate/social issues. (more…)