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James Gorman
William D. Cohan October 30, 2024
News, notes, tea leaf-reading, and second-guessing regarding Wall Street’s favorite (recurring) succession sweepstakes.
donald trump
William D. Cohan October 27, 2024
The rest of America may see the election as too close to call, but Wall Street is preparing for Trump’s second coming. Herewith, a chilling chat with a couple liberal finance titans, who also happen to be Trump Wall Street truthers.
cathie wood
William D. Cohan October 23, 2024
Since her fund’s pandemic peak, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has vaporized $14.3 billion in shareholder value. So why is she still giving investment advice on CNBC?
Simon Johnson
William D. Cohan October 20, 2024
My recent chat with Simon Johnson, a newly minted Nobel laureate, covered all the pre-election anxiety touchstones: the inflation political headache, Biden’s financial comms challenge, Trump’s phony arithmetic, and some memories of 2008, too.


marc rowan
William D. Cohan October 16, 2024
Once upon a time, the LBO business was the most innovative and disruptive—and, honestly, sexy—part of Wall Street, planting the seed for the ~$6 trillion private equity market. But now that P.E. is pivoting to private credit, a new set of tools are being unleashed, and a new generation of winners and losers will be minted.
Ron Perelman
William D. Cohan October 13, 2024
A previously unreported health mitzvah may explain Ronald Perelman’s apparent Zen mind state in recent years, as the man who used to be the richest person in the U.S. recasts his empire.
bill ackman
William D. Cohan October 9, 2024
After a topsy-turvy year in both the public markets and his personal life, Bill Ackman has returned to a familiar activist target: his alma mater, its fiscal mismanagement, woke mind virus, and illiquid investment portfolio.
leon black
William D. Cohan October 6, 2024
In a highly unusual development in the “Jane Doe” suit against the billionaire Apollo founder, Black’s lawyers are demanding access to sealed documents that they believe will show his accuser fabricated her story—and that she might not be an Epstein victim at all.


ron perelman
William D. Cohan October 2, 2024
Once the richest man in America, Ron Perelman has been humbled into a simpler life—selling off his art, backing away from philanthropy, winnowing MacAndrews & Forbes. So what happened over the past several years that caused his $20 billion personal fortune to go up in smoke?
s.b.f sam bankman-fried
William D. Cohan September 29, 2024
A new report from FTX’s court-appointed examiner reveals, in new and sordid details, the gruesome internal dynamics inside the House of S.B.F.
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