M&A Is Back: The $111 Billion Megadeal and the Main Street Deals Nobody Is Bidding On

Buy Build Exit · Aug 19, 2026 · 55m

Ten thousand boomers a day are aging toward an exit, and four hundred miles up the coast a 111 billion dollar media merger is bleeding money because it cannot get out of its own way. Same week, same country, same question underneath both. In this one Charles and I skip the guest chair and just read the tape on what is actually hot in M&A right now.We break down the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery megadeal as a bellwether, not gossip, because whatever regulators allow at the top sets the tone all the way down to your desk. Then we make the turn that matters for our audience, the lower…