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gas station
William D. Cohan August 21, 2024
Our third annual check-in with energy guru Dan Yergin about how the U.S. ended up with an oil and gas surplus, an electricity deficit, and what can make up the difference.
david zaslav
William D. Cohan August 14, 2024
Interrogating the bull case—or at least the view that things aren’t as totally awful as they seem—for David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Linda Yaccarino
William D. Cohan August 11, 2024
News and notes on Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino’s bizarro world “war” on the advertising community.
Rufus Gifford
William D. Cohan August 7, 2024
My candid chat with Rufus Gifford, son of the legendary banker, and now Jeffrey Katzenberg’s partner in shaking the money tree and “creating connectivity” between the donor world and the Harris-Walz campaign.


charles phillips
William D. Cohan August 4, 2024
Charles Phillips, the former Morgan banker and Oracle co-president and Shari whisperer, is one of Kamala Harris’s oldest allies from the finance and tech world. We chatted about her evolution as a candidate, a fundraiser, and more.
larry culp
William D. Cohan July 31, 2024
For years, GE provided executives with a juicy dowry in retirement, bestowed at the sole discretion of the C.E.O. Then Larry Culp came along and started tinkering with the formula, spinning off the liabilities as he broke up Jack Welch’s empire. Now Culp is backtracking, but the damage has been done. “You can hear [Jack] screaming,” said one person involved in the litigation. “The company has changed culturally, and not for the better.”
bill ackman
William D. Cohan July 29, 2024
News and notes on the bizarre and bewildering saga of Pershing Square USA’s long journey to the public market.
bill ackman
William D. Cohan July 24, 2024
Bill Ackman’s forthcoming publicly traded closed-end fund appears to offer retail investors the chance to ride along with the investment strategies of the guy who believes he is the heir to Warren Buffett. Is this a play for permanent capital or something more ephemeral?


David Zaslav
William D. Cohan July 21, 2024
On the heels of the now-infamous BofA note suggesting that WBD needs to buy or sell assets to survive, and Zaz’s own misguided political commentary at the Lodge in Sun Valley, it’s increasingly clear that both the markets and Zaz know that his company needs a shake-up. But what to do in an environment so inhospitable to M&A?
Mario Gabelli
William D. Cohan July 17, 2024
Can Paramount’s long-suffering Class A shareholder successfully twist Shari’s arm and find out what, exactly, David Ellison and the RedBird guys are paying for her slice of the pie? Herewith, a conversation with Mario Gabelli, the architect of Operation Fishbowl.
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