Comcast C.E.O. Brian Roberts.
William D. Cohan 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.
“This acquisition is attractive for UBS shareholders but, let us be clear... this is an emergency rescue,” said UBS Chairman Colm Kelleher.
William D. Cohan March 29, 2023
News and notes on the UBS-Credit Suisse arranged marriage: Bear déjà vu, the AT1 fiasco, Michael Klein, and that bizarre FT piece.
Greg Becker, president and C.E.O. of Silicon Valley Bank.
William D. Cohan March 12, 2023
Assessing the reality of a historic 48 hours on Wall Street.
Larry Summers
William D. Cohan June 15, 2022
In an alternate universe, Obama would have picked Larry Summers to run the Fed in 2013. And we probably wouldn’t be in our economic fix if he had made good on his promise.


Trader
William D. Cohan May 15, 2022
Peter Schiff, a notable “Gloom and Doomer,” accurately predicted the 2008 recession. Want to know what he thinks is headed our way this time around?
Stock crash
William D. Cohan May 11, 2022
If it looks like a recession, and smells like a recession, and the bond market is priced like a recession, then guess what: it’s here.
American Express Executives Sanford Weill and James Dimon
William D. Cohan October 20, 2021
A decade ago, Congress and the vox populi banded together to try to send Wall Street bankers to the clink and chasten the industry for a generation. How’d that go? Re-regulation made the industry stronger and richer than ever—just as the mob moved on to Silicon Valley.