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journalist who asked for help insisted that I could never report on this case myself because of my relationship to a victim. My best option, she said, was to give all my information to her and her partner, the senior reporter who hit on me after dangling a work opportunity. When I told her the story about her partner’s behavior—a pattern with him,

In one celebrated incident, an analyst who had the chutzpah to recommend that Trump’s Taj Mahal bonds be sold because they were unlikely to pay their interest was summarily fired by his firm after threats of legal retaliation from “The Donald” himself. (Later, the bonds did default.) Small wonder that most analysts have purged their prose of

E. J. Kahn's 1956 New Yorker profile of Sidney Weinberg and Former Chairman John Whitehead's ten commandments of effective client coverage-neither of which many of the bankers had ever seen.

The first tangible sign of this underground funding stream was a television ad called “Survivor.” It featured a Canadian woman named Shona Holmes who said, “I survived a brain tumor,” but claimed that if she had been forced to wait for treatment from Canada’s government health service, “I’d be dead.” Instead, she said, she had received lifesaving