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bob iger
William D. Cohan March 10, 2024
A candid assessment of Nelson Peltz’s 133-page dissertation on Disney—the latest salvo in his failing proxy battle.
joe biden
William D. Cohan March 6, 2024
The mandarins of high finance are now positioning their banks for the ultimate high-beta event: the return of Donald Trump.
david zaslav
William D. Cohan March 3, 2024
News and notes on the Downtown Cip table chatter: Zaz’s Paramount false flag and Trump’s increasingly cumbersome penalty financing solutions.
Gunnar Wiedenfels
William D. Cohan February 28, 2024
A close reading of the latest Wall Street-media riddle: why Zaz’s financial henchman can’t arouse analysts while Warren can sweep his Shari losses under the post-EBITDA carpet.


bill ackman
William D. Cohan February 25, 2024
A talmudic reading of the hedge fund manager’s latest three-hour soliloquy, Business Insider counteroffensive, and the general and growing oeuvre of his discontents.
donald trump
William D. Cohan February 21, 2024
Assessing Trump’s path to paying his recently levied $500 million-plus financial penalty.
During the fourth quarter of 2023, Warren Buffett sold 30.4 million shares of Paramount, or about one-third of his stake in the company.
William D. Cohan February 18, 2024
The Oracle of Omaha, presumably pissed that his underlings did the Paramount deal in the first place, is cutting his losses and apparently voting with his feet on a sale process run by his old banker, Byron Trott. Plus: Peltz’s defeat.
michael klein
William D. Cohan February 14, 2024
The fascinating and shocking but not surprising story of how a generationally talented banker found himself in the Senate’s crosshairs.


adam neumann
William D. Cohan February 11, 2024
Does one of the world’s most disgraced entrepreneurs actually want to buy back his old company, or is Adam Neumann’s seemingly fake bid for WeWork just his latest P.R. ruse?
Larry Culp
William D. Cohan February 7, 2024
In two months, GE, which Jack Welch once steered to a $650 billion market value, will officially be split into three public companies—the final act of its last C.E.O., Larry Culp. It didn’t have to be this way for America’s formerly most iconic company. This is how we got here.
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