The Man Who Schooled Wall Street
William D. Cohan, a former senior-level M&A banker on Wall Street, is the author of The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co, and his new best seller House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
M&A legend Bruce Wasserstein, who died Wednesday at 61, showed Wall Street that business could be done profitably and relatively risk-free-without bringing down the system or impoverishing taxpayers.
Nationalization Now
Veteran journalist and television host Dylan Ratigan anchors the MSBNC show, "Morning Meeting," airing weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. Ratigan was most recently anchor and co-creator of CNBC's "Fast Money," co-anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell," and has also been a regular contributor to MSNBC's "Morning Joe." He served as a global managing editor at Bloomberg News until March 2003.
Obama has criticized bankers for their "shameful" actions. CNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan says his next step should be to wipe them out completely.
Wall Street After the Apocalypse
William D. Cohan, a former senior-level M&A banker on Wall Street, is the author of The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co, and his new best seller House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
In Wall Street's new world order, big swinging dicks will be replaced by elite super-banks. It's all so very...French.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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