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Words Matter

The intersection of Wall Street & Washington with William D. Cohan

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

William D. Cohan is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, and through his work there and other writings, Bill has proven himself to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists working today. A former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, Bill is a New York Times bestselling author covering the important intersection between Wall Street and Washington. Bill is the author of 6 books: The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal Why Wall Street Matters Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short Follow Bill on Twitter: @WilliamCohan Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.

0:12.0

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

0:15.0

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

0:18.0

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

0:24.0

Words have power and words have consequences.

0:33.0

Our guest today is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author.

0:37.0

William D. Cohen is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and through his work there and other writings,

0:43.0

Bill has proven himself to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists working today.

0:48.0

He is truly a great reporter covering the important intersection between Wall Street and Washington.

0:54.0

He's the author of six books among them, The Last Tycoons, A Secret History of Lazard,

1:00.0

Money in Power, How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, The Price of Silence, The Duke Lacrosse scandal,

1:07.0

Why Wall Street Matters, And Four Friends, Promising Lives Cut Short.

1:12.0

Bill Cohen, Welcome back to Words Matter.

1:15.0

Thank you, Adam. It's great to be back with you again.

1:18.0

Well, since we're at that point in the year where we all reflect on what's happened and start thinking about the future,

1:24.0

I wanted to have you on today because in a historic year in both terms of economics and politics,

1:30.0

there's nobody who I know and respect who has a better sense of really what's happening in that critical intersection,

1:36.0

as I mentioned in the intro between Washington and Wall Street.

1:41.0

And so before we begin our 2020, what the fuck was that discussion?

1:46.0

I wanted to talk for a minute about you, even on our show a couple of times.

1:50.0

And we've talked a lot about your, for example, when we talked about your book for friends,

1:55.0

we talked about your boarding school experience and those relationships.

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