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David Solomon
William D. Cohan January 23, 2025
Goldman Sachs just gave C.E.O. David Solomon 80 million reasons to stick around for another five years. It also provided a plan for succession—the sort of road map that is still egregiously absent among some of Goldman’s largest peers.
donald trump nyse wall street
William D. Cohan January 19, 2025
Despite a number of complex and even chilling signals, the new president will inherit the stable economy that his predecessor achieved but could never articulate—Trump’s latest stroke of luck in a lifetime of unprecedented good fortune.
leon black
William D. Cohan January 19, 2025
New legal judgments would seem to vindicate the Apollo founder, who had been enmeshed for years in the Epstein miasma and a couple other sordid scenarios.
Bill Ackman
William D. Cohan January 16, 2025
Bill Ackman, the prolific X poster and hedge fund billionaire, has proposed a deal to position himself as his generation’s answer to Warren Buffett—his latest attempt to secure a place on Wall Street’s Mount Rushmore.


donald trump elon musk
William D. Cohan January 12, 2025
Will the investor infatuation with Tesla (or SpaceX or Starlink…) fade after Trump and Musk have their inevitable falling out?
Brian Roberts
William D. Cohan January 9, 2025
Wall Street has caught M&A fever anticipating the incoming Trump administration, but C.E.O.s may soon regret placing big bets on a scenario rife with what ifs…
michael douglas wall street
William D. Cohan January 6, 2025
A talmudic reading of the underappreciated saga surrounding VitalCaring Group, a private equity concoction that a Delaware judge has branded a hallmark of modern duplicity.
david ellison
William D. Cohan December 29, 2024
As the new year approaches, a timely conversation with Kim Masters, the legendary entertainment journalist and Puck’s newest partner, on the issues bedeviling Hollywood: the fate of the spinco phenomenon, the future of David Ellison’s Paramount, the never-ending succession speculation at Disney, and much more.


brian roberts
William D. Cohan December 22, 2024
After a year of legacy media conglomerate C.E.O.s alternately putting “everything on the table,” the scope of the real deal activity will become clear in 1H25.
William D. Cohan on a Zero G no gravity flight
William D. Cohan December 18, 2024
The rise, fall, and return of Zero-G, the “zero gravity” lower-priced alternative to Blue Origin, which allows tourists and researchers to experience the flavor of space over the Atlantic for 10 grand a pop.
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