TheDailyBeast.com, 7/7/09

Palin’s $20 Million Payday

Why did Alaska’s ambitious governor ditch a lame-duck $125,000 job? Between a $4 million book deal, speeches, and a possible TV gig, on The Daily Beast, we calculate 20 million reasons a year.

Last Man Standing

My book on JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon will be published by Simon & Schuster in October 2009.

Click below to get yourself a copy:

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

TheBigMoney.com, 6/19/09

BlackRock Vs. Blackstone.

How to tell the two financial firms apart.

TheBigMoney.com, 6/15/09

Not Lonely At the Top

JPMorgan Chase shows that two CEOs can be better than one.

NYmag.com, 6/1/09

Arthur Levitt joins Goldman Sachs as an advisor.

Conspiracy theories about the interconnectedness of Wall Street and its Washington overseers aren’t hard to find these days, and for good reason. Throw a stone and it’s likely to land on someone who’s been through the revolving door between finance and its regulators. Usually it’s a one-way move — the longtime SEC lawyer who jumps the fence for the Wall Street payday, or the Wall Street titan that goes to the Treasury Department to “give back” to the country that has made him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Sometimes, though, the same person keeps going through that revolving door, ending up on a different side each time. Arthur Levitt is one such man.

The Daily Beast, 5/4/2009

Our Crashing Portfolio.

The Treasury has invested billions in troubled companies—but how’s our money actually doing? We compared our taxpayer portfolio with the S&P 500—and discovered just how bad an investment junk companies can be.

Portfolio.com, 4/24/09

JPMorgan is the New Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs once ruled the Street. No more. Now the bank to admire—and fear—is Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase.

Conde Nast Portfolio, April 2009

The Steve Jobs Economy.

A back-of-the-envelope assessment of how much the ailing CEO has been worth to Apple and to the tech industry overall.

VanityFair.com, 2/16/08

M. Ward Interview

“Fame and Money is a ticket to madness.”

VanityFair.com

Paul Simon swims in a sea of celebrities.