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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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William D. Cohan

T2JournalistsThe investment industry and its firms

American business writer, born in 1960.

LazardMerrill LynchJPMorgan Chase

House of Cards reconstructs the ten days in which Bear Stearns lost its funding, hour by hour and from the people in the room, and remains the closest study of how a broker-dealer run actually proceeds. Money and Power and The Last Tycoons trace how Goldman Sachs and Lazard made money over decades, including the partnership economics and internal politics that decided who got paid.

4 books of their own · 120 articles

Books 4Writing 120

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  1. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall StreetWilliam D. Cohan, 2009
  2. The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & CoWilliam D. Cohan, 2007
  3. Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the WorldWilliam D. Cohan, 2011
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and WretcheHouse of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
T2 House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
William D. Cohan · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bear Stearns's ten-day collapse in March 2008, and the firm's history before it.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of LazaThe Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co
T2 The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co
William D. Cohan · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of Lazard Freres and its partners, from interviews and internal papers.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to RMoney and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
T2 Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
William D. Cohan · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Goldman Sachs from Marcus Goldman to the 2008 crisis, from internal documents.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an Ameri
T2 Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
William D. Cohan · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

General Electric from its founding to its dismantling, from Welch to Culp.

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall StreetBear Stearns's ten-day collapse in March 2008, and the firm's history before it.2009T2Mohnish Pabrai
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & CoThe history of Lazard Freres and its partners, from interviews and internal papers.2007T2Mohnish Pabrai
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the WorldGoldman Sachs from Marcus Goldman to the 2008 crisis, from internal documents.2011T2Mohnish Pabrai
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American IconGeneral Electric from its founding to its dismantling, from Welch to Culp.2022T2–

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