Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to Puck’s best new reporting. Here’s what you need to know… and stick around for more from Bill Cohan’s chat with Goldman C.E.O. David Solomon.

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‘The Boys’ EP / showrunner breaks down the series finale’s boldest choices and the scene he was planning from the very beginning. “It was so satisfying to bring together threads that we’ve been planting for seven years now,” said Eric Kripke. “It was really important to us for Homelander to at least experience a little bit of time powerless.”

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Meanwhile, on the pods…

And now, a little more on David Solomon’s Goldman playbook…

WALL STREET

Everything seems to be coming together for David Solomon, now in his eighth year as C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs. The firm is co-lead managing the SpaceX I.P.O.; recently joint-managed the $85 billion equity raise for Alphabet; is a lead manager on the Anthropic I.P.O.; and will likely be involved in the OpenAI offering, too. Meanwhile, the firm’s revenue will probably come in at around $75 billion this year, and, correspondingly, the stock price is up 68 percent in the past year alone.

During a candid chat with Bill, David shared he was “quite optimistic” that the world economy was “set up” for real economic growth at the beginning of the year—but that the Iran war might lead to “a little bit of softness” in the second half. However, he’s been telling clients this is a rare, perfect moment to raise capital, given the “risk off” mentality of many investors, among other things. He also told Bill that the tech boom could “unlock a productivity acceleration in the United States,” and that right now, our capital markets are “so far ahead of everyone.” Indeed, that optimism pervaded the entire conversation. “The world is a magical place,” he said. “There’s so much opportunity.”

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MEDIA

By all accounts, Bari Weiss could use some help running CBS News. But hiring the right executive with the right skills will be tricky, especially when the usual suspects are probably too cautious, myopic, or smart to join the gang.

HOLLYWOOD

Studios and streamers have had mixed success trying to graft YouTube stars onto their own platforms. Fox’s new Creator Studios is trying something different: investing in I.P. across the internet, regardless of where it shows up.

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