Meanwhile Goldman Sachs and Allianz Capital would love it to be known, from this example, that although they might have made more money if they had found an industrial buyer, they can be fairy godmothers to family firms who might be wary of using private equity.
If only our earliest encounters with money, like getting a quarter for cleaning our room or a whole dollar from the Tooth Fairy, taught us what we would need to know about personal finance.