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NEWSLETTERS
Under the leadership of Ken Jacobs, who has been extremely well paid, Lazard has grown bigger and more robust. But its stock has underperformed badly.
WALL STREET May 10, 2023
How Wall Street’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and flamboyant firm—“l’haute banque d’affaires vis-à-vis the world”—was brought down by fate and tragedy, and what it can do to become exceptional again.
It’s not clear what our friend Warren was thinking when he invested in what is now known as Paramount Global.
WALL STREET May 7, 2023
News and notes on the rumblings inside Wall Street C-suites, the Sconset set, and the Gin Lane mafia: the Berkshire Hathaway-Paramount mystery, a Goldman curiosity, and the latest Icahn controversy.
Jamie Dimon is predicting, conservatively, that First Republic will add $500 million in net income to JPM’s bottom line.
WALL STREET May 3, 2023
A brief history of how Jamie Dimon and JPM became the saviors of Wall Street.
Comcast C.E.O. Brian Roberts.
WALL STREET April 30, 2023
Notes on Brian Roberts’ post-Shell, pre-merger executive placeholder; a banking mini-crisis postmortem; and the end of the Lazard Way.


Does Comcast C.E.O. Brian Roberts’ decision to appoint Mike Cavanagh as Shell’s interim successor suggest that he’s preparing for a hypothetical combination of NBCU with Warner Bros. Discovery?
WALL STREET April 26, 2023
With Shell out and Hulu in limbo, the fantasy of a Roberts-governed, Zaz-operated, post-Reverse Morris mega merger is more tantalizing than ever.
WALL STREET April 23, 2023
News and notes on the murmurings from the Maidstone Club: springtime for I.P.O.s, the next phase of private equity dealmaking, and the cries from pity city.
Anthony Scaramucci first met S.B.F. over Zoom, in and around March 2021, at the suggestion of a mutual friend.
WALL STREET April 19, 2023
What could possibly go wrong on a heavy-duty fundraising trip to the Middle East (with cameos from M.B.S., Jared, and Schwarzman) with FTX secretly on the brink of collapse?
Casey Bloys, Kathleen Finch, David Zaslav, and J.B. Perrette during a Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming press event.
WALL STREET April 16, 2023
News and notes from private equity, Zazworld, and media.


FTX interim C.E.O. John J. Ray III wrote that the lack of records and controls at S.B.F.’s company was so “pervasive,” that he and his team had to “start from scratch,” in order to “simply identify the assets.”
WALL STREET April 12, 2023
The first interim report by John J. Ray III, the restructuring guru and C.E.O. of the remains of FTX, depicts a horror show of moronic Gen Z hubris, financial impropriety, deceit, and so much more.
Apple’s slowing growth and $165 billion balance sheet are fueling armchair speculation that C.E.O. Tim Cook ought to put some of that cash to work.
WALL STREET April 9, 2023
News and notes on the inside story on Wall Street: the coming Elon debt crisis, more Shitrix porn, and a Ronald Perelman milestone.
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