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THE MONDAY after a long working weekend, Jamie Dimon looked a little tired. His collar was unbuttoned, his tie loosened, and he was slouching slightly in his office chair. The [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, much of the country was enraged because not a single Wall Street hotshot--the guys who got us into the [...]

IT'S UNLIKELY THE TWO HAVE ever met, but Citigroup chairman and CEO Chuck Prince and Yankees relief pitcher Luis Vizcaino have something in common. Consider Game 2 in the recent [...]

THE EVERYTHING STORE Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon By Brad Stone Illustrated. 372 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $28. About a quarter of the way into ''The Everything [...]

The article discusses James Gorman, chief executive officer of investment bank Morgan Stanley. He began his career as a lawyer before going to business school and taking a position at consulting firm McKinsey. In 1999 he joined financial services firm Merrill Lynch, where he successfully revamped the company's brokerage business. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2006 and became chief executive in 2010. In that role he has focused on strengthening Morgan's wealth management and investment banking businesses while reducing risk.

The article profiles corporate investigator Jeremy Kroll and his global services firm K2 Global Consulting (K2), founded with his father Jules. A K2 contract award is noted wherein Kroll's firm will investigate larceny committed against the organization Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Jeremy Kroll's career beginnings working for his father Jules are noted, as are Jeremy's ideas for using information technology in place of traditional and so-called gumshoe techniques. Jeremy and Jules Kroll reportedly also founded Kroll Bond Ratings. INSET: BOND DETECTIVES.

The article discusses charges that have been brought against business executive Rajat Gupta that he was allegedly involved with insider trading. Allegations that have been brought against Gupta that he shared confidential investment information with hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam are discussed. Speculation that has been raised regarding the impact that the legal proceedings against Rajaratnam on charges of insider trading may impact Gupta is mentioned. Gupta's life and experience working in the financial sector is discussed.

The article profiles Jes Staley, a prominent executive with J. P. Morgan Chase, a U.S. financial services organization. The central focus of the article is on the choice of Staley to head the J. P. Morgan investment bank, a post he was appointed to by Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of J. P. Morgan Chase. A number of issues are addressed in the article including the performance of J. P. Morgan Chase during the financial crisis of 2008-09, Staley's career with the bank in Brazil, and the HIV-positive status of Staley's brother.

The article discusses the business strategies of Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer (CEO) of banking company JPMorgan Chase during the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. In March, 2008, Dimon organized a purchase of failed banking company Bear Stearns in a single weekend with U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner.

Byline: BY MAX CHAFKIN, PETER KAFKA, JOHN KOBLIN, NICOLE LaPORTE, and DUFF McDONALD THE POWERS THAT BE Having earned their place in the firmament, the top 25 mandarins include titans [...]

Byline: DUFF McDONALD Dig This They've been around for only nine years, but archival-record label Numero Group is already makingbetter yet, preservinghistory. And the Chicago imprint, dedicated to rescuing obscure [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald At a party at the Canadian consulate general’s residence, Pat Kiernan, NY1 morning anchor and pride of Alberta, is confessing to some un-Canadian ambition. Specifically, he wants [...]

Byline: Duff Mcdonald Bristol Palin Inc. There's a long political tradition of kids cashing in on a parent's name: Jenna Bush, Ron and Michael Reagan, the Roosevelts. But their dads [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald I came up with the idea for this consumer financial-protection agency,' says Elizabeth Warren, President Obama's controversial new head of the very thing she invented. 'It's mine. [...]

The VANITY FAIR 100 Two years ago, when Facebook recruited its 100-millionth user, a celebratory toga party was thrown by C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg, a classics buff who is prone to [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald As financial reform stumbles across the finish line in Washington, D.C., we can only hope that it will have some real, lasting effect--that it will somehow make [...]

THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT 2009 Looking back on a tumultuous 12 months, we realize that the New Establishment had its Marie Antoinette moment just as we were publishing last year's rankings. [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald September 15 marks the first anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers, and along with millions of unemployed Americans, many erstwhile Masters of the Universe are out [...]

Byline: Duff McDonald McKinsey & Co. are supposed to know it all. They're business consultants who travel the world and charge corporations top dollar to help them run with state-of-the-art [...]

Byline: Mcdonald, Duff Cover Your Assets : Even when you think you have your bases covered, you can be blindsided by a lawsuit and lose it all. A wake-up call [...]

Byline: McDonald, Duff Read anyone There's a secret code embedded in every human interaction. Let the masters of the courtroom show you how to hone your own sixth sense By [...]

1 SERGEY BRIN President, Technology, Google Inc. LARRY PAGE President, Products, Google Inc. SERGEY BRIN FASHION MISHAP: Showed up for a magazine interview wearing short-shorts and Adidas sandals, then apologized [...]

Brad Pitt doesn't split pots. That's according to Elliott Gould, who played Texas Hold 'Em night after night during the shooting of Ocean's Twelve with Pitt, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, [...]

Byline: McDonald, Duff Remember the dweebs from high school? No, not the ones who grew up to found high-tech companies, and then sold them at the height of the market, [...]

Sitting on a dais inside a private club on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Conrad Black was in his element. It was nearly eight p.m. on Thursday, November 6, of last [...]

In early December, as the Nasdaq was putting the finishing touches on a 41 percent rebound from its September low, Donald Trump must have been hoisting a glass of his […]

(Normally in 'Tactics,' Red Herring columnists Arnie Berman and Pip Coburn alternate in advising readers about important issues for technology investors. This month, we turned the tables and made them […]

Valuation. To some, it must seem an exotic word, eliciting a vague idea of some far-off place. To others, it's something they once knew that's now just a hazy memory. […]

It's a fitting conundrum for the times. From August through November, analysts trimmed 2002 earnings estimates for technology companies by 26 percent. Meanwhile, technology shares rallied 43 percent from their […]

Investors are sittin' on the sidelines. Is everybody a spectator? According to the Investment Company Institute, a financial industry association, assets in money market funds hit $2.229 trillion as of […]

Let us say this about the Nasdaq's performance this summer: it wasn't hard to keep track of which way it was going. A dismal August saw the index in free […]

It seems like an easy decision: you're the chief financial officer of a cash-strapped technology company and you're offered the opportunity to raise funds and reduce operating expenses in one […]

The article discusses how the Harvard Business School (HBS) has failed the U.S. economy, focusing on finance professor Michael Jensen of Harvard and the school's focus on making money contrary to its claim of making the world a better place. Topics include the economic views of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman regarding the concept of the executive as agent of the shareholders of a company, the emergence of corporate raiders, and Jensen's capital market restructuring revolution.

WHAT'S WHAT COULD HAPPEN HOW MUCH IT HURTS HAPPENING US CONSUMER It's bad, and Naysayers have Perhaps less than CONFIDENCE getting worse. always warned we you'd think. Last month's couldn't [...]

WALL STREET MOGULS' stock holdings in their own companies lost them a combined $842 billion since the frothy days of just last year. Who escaped the least scathed? Citigroup's new [...]

Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal became the first Wall Street CEO to lose his job over the credit crisis. Which megabanker might end up on the chopping block next? A scorecard. [...]

'I'VE NEVER CURSED at Anucha,' Isiah Thomas testified last week. 'I've cursed around Anucha.' The Knicks coach and president was on the stand in a wrongful-termination suit brought against him [...]