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s.b.f.
William D. Cohan September 25, 2024
Two recently filed amicus briefs on behalf of S.B.F. may prove to be his best hope yet of reducing his sentence. At the very least, they offer a fascinating revisionist history of this chapter of the FTX saga.
Peter Orszag
William D. Cohan September 22, 2024
Young Wall Street associates aren’t operating in a theater of war, so why can’t the industry actually do a little more to prevent their existences from becoming a total living hell—without the pat talking points?
Jerome Powell
William D. Cohan September 18, 2024
Today, the Fed cut interest rates by 50 basis points. Meanwhile, the economy is thriving, and the stock and bond markets are rallying. So why is deal volume down 30 percent from last year? And why is the I.P.O market so lackluster? A revealing conversation with a top banker in the C-suite.
s.b.f sam bankman-fried
William D. Cohan September 15, 2024
Notes on Sam Bankman-Fried’s fiery 102-page appeal, his demand for a new trial, and why he argues that everyone—well, at least Judge Lewis Kaplan, FTX’s attorneys, and the media—was out to convict him from the start.


Carl Icahn
William D. Cohan September 11, 2024
Now 88 years old, Carl Icahn has seen his personal fortune dwindle by some $20 billion in recent years. Has he lost his edge, or is something else afoot inside his holding company? Anyway, we chatted about it.
donald trump
William D. Cohan September 8, 2024
Yes, Trump’s insane, rambling, nonsensical dissembling at the Economic Club of New York was the latest evidence of his declining acuity. But it was also yet another example of his terrible understanding of simple business concepts.
aig joseph cassano Martin Sullivan robert lewis
William D. Cohan September 4, 2024
A cohort of former AIG Financial Products executives—the same guys who helped precipitate the 2008 financial collapse—have come to collect the hundreds of millions they claim they’re owed. Only on Wall Street…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has surpassed a $1 trillion dollar market valuation.
William D. Cohan September 1, 2024
News and notes from the Wall Street hype machine as Berkshire Hathaway hits $1 trillion, Sam Altman’s OpenAI trades at 33x (!) revenue, and Two Sigma continues to flirt with disaster.


Edgar Bronfman Jr. was gearing up to make a rival bid for Paramount.
William D. Cohan August 28, 2024
News and notes on Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s brief, absurd, and embarrassing attempt to acquire Paramount Global. “He got a lot [of investment] quickly, but not the last mile needed for certainty,” one deal participant told me.
Edgar Bronfman jr.
William D. Cohan August 25, 2024
The latest strategic considerations regarding Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s 13th-hour bid for Paramount, how the special committee is adjudicating the rival offers, and why David Ellison’s Skydance will almost certainly come out on top.
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