New York magazine, 3/31/08

The Bank Job

How Jamie Dimon resisted the quick and dirty temptations of Wall Street and put himself in perfect position for the deal, or maybe steal, of the century.

Conde Nast Portfolio, March 2008

Cubs Calculus

A back-of-the-napkin analysis of how much investors might be willing to pay for Chicago’s beloved underdogs.

NYmag.com, 3/19/08

Happy Hooker Xaviera Hollander Has the Utmost Respect for the Girls of the Emperors Club

Portfolio.com, 2/26/08

Replacement Value

Tech strategist Arnie Berman tells Duff McDonald how corner-office carnage can lead to big tech stock gains.

NYmag.com, 2/8/08

Harry Macklowe Takes It On The Chin

Just about a year ago, real-estate mogul Harry Macklowe borrowed $5.8 billion from Deutsche Bank to buy seven office buildings in New York City while putting up just $50 million of his own cash.

NYmag.com, 2/1/08

Why Should Microsoft Try For First Place When it Can Buy Second?

With this morning’s announcement that it had made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft continues a multi-year streak of indicating that it will settle for buying second place instead of battling its way to first.

New York magazine, 1/27/08

Cash of the Titans
You can’t lose a fortune unless you have it in the first place.

NYmag.com, 1/25/08

Heavyweights Barry Diller and John Malone Get in the Ring.

It’s like Laurel suing Hardy. Or Sergey suing Larry. Word broke yesterday that John Malone’s Liberty Media was suing Barry Diller’s IAC/InteractiveCorp, with the aim of preventing a restructuring that would dilute its control over IAC’s component parts, which include Ticketmaster, the Home Shopping Network, and a passel of Internet properties like Match.com and Ask.com.

NPR, Bryant Park Project, 1/23/08

Another NPR interview on the wonders of the Britney Economy.

NPR Weekend Edition, 1/19/08

Duff on NPR’s Weekend Edition discussing the Britney Spears economy.