Entries tagged "Vanity Fair"
Vampire Squid? Trading huddles? Pay no mind: Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein is at the top of the heap, according to Vanity Fair.
Vanity Fair has been getting a lot of attention between its features on Sarah Palin and Heath Ledger. Now the magazine calls AIG's Joseph Cassano 'the man who crashed the world.'
Eliot Spitzer may not hold any political power, but he continues to pull no punches now that he's become a media commentator. Earlier this month Spitzer began his comeback when it was divulged he was joining The Washington Post's online magazine Slate. However, he's not only voicing his thoughts via WaPo publications, but to anyone who will listen to him. The most recent outlet is a Vanity Fair political blog, where he spouted off some candid thoughts on President-elect Barack Obama's financial team to Maureen Tkacik. ...
So what do we say? How do we act? How should we deal with extraordinary events like a liquidity run on an investment bank? In Vanity Fair, Bryan Burrough's exhumation of the Bear Stearns Cos. collapse raises those questions, particularly when he criticizes the folks over at CNBC for pouring gasoline on Bear's little bonfire. Our own Yvette Kantrow's "Media Maneuvers" column this week takes a searching look at the VF piece and at the continuing chatter on CNBC about another threatened firm, Lehman Brothers Inc.; her column has just gone up over on The Deal's newsweekly site. The debate...
