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shari redstone
WALL STREET March 17, 2024
Apollo is certainly not the suitor that Shari Redstone dreamed about. But is it the best she can get? And what “value” might they “extract” from the family empire?
David Zaslav
HOLLYWOOD March 13, 2024
In two short years, David Zaslav has gone from the toast of Hollywood to its favorite villain—the caricature of an overpaid, wannabe mogul who can’t see past the next quarter’s earnings. With the restrictions of WBD’s original Reverse Morris Trust structure set to expire, can he rewrite his script? It all comes down to debt maturities and Max.
bob iger
WALL STREET March 10, 2024
A candid assessment of Nelson Peltz’s 133-page dissertation on Disney—the latest salvo in his failing proxy battle.
joe biden
WALL STREET March 6, 2024
The mandarins of high finance are now positioning their banks for the ultimate high-beta event: the return of Donald Trump.


david zaslav
WALL STREET March 3, 2024
News and notes on the Downtown Cip table chatter: Zaz’s Paramount false flag and Trump’s increasingly cumbersome penalty financing solutions.
Gunnar Wiedenfels
WALL STREET February 28, 2024
A close reading of the latest Wall Street-media riddle: why Zaz’s financial henchman can’t arouse analysts while Warren can sweep his Shari losses under the post-EBITDA carpet.
bill ackman
WALL STREET February 25, 2024
A talmudic reading of the hedge fund manager’s latest three-hour soliloquy, Business Insider counteroffensive, and the general and growing oeuvre of his discontents.
donald trump
WALL STREET February 21, 2024
Assessing Trump’s path to paying his recently levied $500 million-plus financial penalty.


During the fourth quarter of 2023, Warren Buffett sold 30.4 million shares of Paramount, or about one-third of his stake in the company.
WALL STREET February 18, 2024
The Oracle of Omaha, presumably pissed that his underlings did the Paramount deal in the first place, is cutting his losses and apparently voting with his feet on a sale process run by his old banker, Byron Trott. Plus: Peltz’s defeat.
michael klein
WALL STREET February 14, 2024
The fascinating and shocking but not surprising story of how a generationally talented banker found himself in the Senate’s crosshairs.
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