Jon Shazar

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Banks

Wells, BofA Prove Stimulus Is Working By Not Looking Like Dogsh*t In Q1

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Coinbase Listing The Last Crypto Milestone Gary Gensler Won’t Get To Weigh In On

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Actually, Lynn Tilton Can Mess With The Zohar(s)

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Banks

Can You Stop Asking Jamie Dimon About Voting Rights And Start Asking Him About That Quarter?

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Goodnight, Sweet Ponzi Prince

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SPAC Industry Marks Latest Scrutiny With Biggest Deal Ever, Potentially Bigger Deal Still

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Banks

Goldman Betting $75 Million On Dealbreaker Ads

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Charles Schwab Tries, Probably Fails To Make Citi Feel Better About That Whole Accidentally Sending People Too Much Money Thing

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Hedge Funds

Melvin Capital Needs No Historic Short Squeeze To Lose A Bunch Of Money

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Banks

Jane Fraser Is A Budding Wind Farm Wildcatter

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Private Equity

Tweets From Mistress Alleging Abuse Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With Leon Black’s Early Retirement Five Days Later

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Private Equity

Private Equity Exec. Indicted In College Admissions Scandal Must Really Like Going To Court

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News

D-List Actor Accused Of Grade-A Ponzi Scheme

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Hedge Funds

Dan Loeb Is Popping Bubbles And Loving It

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SPACs, NFTs Have Reached ‘Baseball Card Company Has Heard Of Us And Wants In’ Stage Of Oversaturation

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Hedge Funds

Seems ‘Insider Trader’ Was A Bit Too Harsh A Description For Two Hedge Fund Managers

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So Taxes Are Going To Be Pretty Important To Pay For Rebuilding America, Huh?

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News

Prosecutors Come To Belated Realization That It’s Very Hard To Manipulate A Made-Metric When You Tell Analysts, Auditors Exactly How You’re Manipulating It

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Hedge Funds

Former CFO Of Badly-Run Company To Become CEO Of Badly-Run Company Hunter

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Banks

SPACs Facing Tripartite Challenge Of Excess, Mountains Of Paperwork And People With Other Things To Do With Their Stimulus Checks

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Hedge Funds

Steve Cohen’s Mets Sign All-Star To Three-Quarters-Of-A-Billion-Dollar Deal, Are Still The Mets

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Banks

Goldman Sachs Trades FUD For FOMO

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Maybe SPAC’s Shouldn’t Just Be A Cash Machine For Sponsors?

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Banks

‘Important’ As Meaningless As ‘Integrity And Honesty’ When Goldman Sachs Says It

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Shaquille O’Neal Is Taking WeWork Public Via SPAC And Other Tales Of Finance In 2021

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Someone Else Doesn’t Like Elon Musk’s Tweets

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SEC Upgrades Interest In SPAC Boom From ‘Passing’ To ‘Nearly Interrogatory’

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GameStop, Robinhood Demonstrate Shared Impeccable Timing

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Would Like To Pay $40 Less Per Ton Of Oil? Ex-Glencore Trader Allegedly Can Show You How

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Hedge Funds

If You’ve Literally Written Checks Filled With Client Money To Yourself, It’s Probably Best To Come Up With A Different Defense Against The Ensuing Fraud Charges Than A Pearl-Clutching ‘I Had No Idea’

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Hedge Funds

Degenerates Kicking Hedge Fund They Pushed To The Floor While It’s Down

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If We’re Just Making Up Titles, Prince Harry Wants In

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GameStop To Cosplay As Actual Company, Release Irrelevant Earnings

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Crypto Exchange Fined $6.5 Million For Trading Cryptos With Itself On Itself

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Private Equity

Leon Black To Spend Even More Time With His Alibis For That Visit To Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Island

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Hedge Funds

Practiced Court Witness Crispin Odey Can’t Save Colleagues From Unpleasant Tax Bill

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Banks

Mike Corbat Thinks The Best Thing About Mike Corbat’s Leadership Of Citi Was When It Was Over

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China Protecting Soldiers, Executives From Spying, Spontaneous Combustion

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Private Equity

Killing Caesars: A Belated Ides Of March Story

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Elderly Retired Californian Masters Exciting New Game

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Hedge Funds

Craig Carton Back To Work, Allegedly Back To Not Paying His Bills

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Will There Be Anything Left For Gary Gensler To Do At The SEC?

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Banks

Wells, JPMorgan Saving A Great St. Patrick’s Day Present For You

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Technoking Of Tesla Sued For Tweeting

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Private Equity

Second Trial Avoided Rather Less Auspicious For Private Equity Firm Than The First

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Banks

HSBC Encouraging Those I-Bankers Who Can To Leave And The Rest To Just Slack Off

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SEC Sighs, Shakes Head, Feels Compelled To Say, ‘We’re Not So Sure About This Charlie Sheen SPAC’

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Hedge Funds

And The Biggest Pain In The Ass of 2020 Is…

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Banks

Citi Stupidity Clause Now Standard Feature Of Debt Deals

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Cryptocurrencies

Bankrupt Crypto Platform Says Its Only Problem Was Hiring A Guy Who Broke Out Of Jail