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carlos watson
William D. Cohan April 2, 2025
How Carlos Watson, with help from Donald Trump and his “pardon czar,” remade himself as the victim of his own $100 million fraud.
Elon Musk
William D. Cohan March 30, 2025
News and notes on the biggest deals of the week on Wall Street, for better or worse.
Brad Karp
William D. Cohan March 26, 2025
Many senior finance executives are terrified that, once Trump finishes throwing darts at Big Law, he’ll take aim at banks and private equity firms. “If the government decides that it wants to get you, … don’t fight,” one Wall Street C.E.O. told me.
gary cohn donald trump
William D. Cohan & Peter Hamby March 23, 2025
An honest conversation about the stock market “correction,” the folly of Trump’s trade wars, the Scott Bessent security blanket, the rotation into Europe, and why Wall Street is missing Gary Cohn.


mike mayo
William D. Cohan March 19, 2025
Mike Mayo, the august Wells Fargo analyst, offers the bull case for Trump’s hard reset of the economy, strangling bureaucracy, gutting Dodd-Frank, and why he thinks the banking sector is ready to rip. Has Mike sipped the Kool-Aid, or should everyone just chill out?
Donald Trump, Elon Musk
William D. Cohan March 16, 2025
News and notes from around the financial sector: an update on the latest pseudo obstacle to the Skydance bid for Paramount Global, a banker’s lament for the frozen M&A pipeline under Trump II, and a close look at how Elon Musk’s businesses have been faring since the election.
libby locke
William D. Cohan March 12, 2025
The ultrawealthy are feeling emboldened to file lawsuits against journalists and their publishers, perhaps inspired by Donald Trump’s giddy disregard for a free press. In his new book, ‘Murder the Truth,’ David Enrich forecasts a dangerous endgame.
Michael Saylor
William D. Cohan March 9, 2025
The crypto faithful believe the new consensus in Washington—a $Trump-empowered, zero-regulation, free-for-all—will make all their dreams come true, starting with a plan to create a Bitcoin Fort Knox.


Bill Ackman
William D. Cohan March 6, 2025
Ackman’s professed admiration for his hero Warren Buffett was questioned in some quarters after a recent podcast appearance, where the hedge fund billionaire appeared to second-guess the Oracle of Omaha’s strategy.
David Zaslav
William D. Cohan March 2, 2025
Three years after the fraught inception of David Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery, the company’s Q4 earnings report suggests that things are finally turning a corner—and investors seem to agree. But can Zaz continue to outrun the decline of the TV business?
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