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In This Issue of Condé Nast Portfolio

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December 2008
Cover Story

The End

With the Wall Street era officially over, the writer who chronicled its excess in Liar's Poker returns 20 years later to explain how things fell apart. Read More
Features
Heartbreak Hotels

Heartbreak Hotels

Blackstone picked up Hilton for $26 billion at the peak of the buyout market. With the industry now in a hole, C.E.O. Stephen Schwarzman might wish he had never checked in. Read More

The Price of Immortality

Mayor Bloomberg's Delicate Condition

New York's popular mayor is dogged by a class-action suit charging that his media company discriminated against pregnant staffers. Read More

Related: Ladies' Man
De La Hoya vs. the Boxing Establishment

De La Hoya vs. the Boxing Establishment

The middleweight fighter is emerging as a heavyweight promoter with 50 boxers in his stable. Can he get a bloodied sport back in the ring? Read More

Related: Tabloid King
The Hedge Fund Collapse

The Hedge Fund Collapse

Pols are gunning for hedge funds, and investors are bailing as a high-flying industry prepares for its great reckoning. How did it fall so far? Read More

Be a Trump!

Be a Trump!

Plenty of sons follow their fathers into the business world, but only Donald Jr. can dish on surviving the meltdown in true Trump fashion—and explain his father's 1980s style. Read More

The Hard Sell

The Hard Sell

With G.M. seeking a buyer for its tanking Hummer line, four agencies offer their visions on how to rebrand the world's most infamous S.U.V. View Slideshow

 
COLUMNS
The 2009 Investing Survival Guide

'09 Investing Survival Guide

Here's what worked in 2008, and how to get ahead in 2009.
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The Case for Chapter 11

The Case for Chapter 11

How declaring bankruptcy could save General Motors. Read More

 
Don't Believe the Hype

Don't Believe the Hype

Paul Krugman saw the $700 billion bailout's fatal flaw. Read More

Worst of Times

Worst of Times

The crash and coming crises. Read More

 
Hollywood or Bust!

Scientology's Money Trail

Inside the Church of Cruise. Read More

The Peterson Principle

The Peterson Principle

The Blackstone co-founder launches a $1 billion foundation to warn about U.S. debt. Read More

 
PLUS ...
 
CULTURE INC.
Miami Basel's Blue Period

Miami Basel's Blue Period

Luxury sponsors of the art-world elite's annual party are scaling back—or pulling out. Read More

Pimp Your House

Pimp Your House

While the mortgage crisis rages, a few L.A. homeowners are turning their houses into film sets. Read More

 
The Sultan of Sway

The Sultan of Sway

Book Review: A new book reveals how Washington's close relationship with a Saudi diplomat went up in smoke after 9/11. Read More

The Kennedy Center Honors, in Washington, D.C.

The Culturati

What's on these executives' December cultural calendars. Read More

 
IN PLAY
New New Things

New New Things

Flat-screen TVs, earphones, video cameras—priced for both bull and bear markets. Read More

 
BRIEF
The End of Hubris

The End of Hubris

With everybody wrong about the financial crisis, nobody can gloat. Read More

When the Giving Is Gone

When the Giving Is Gone

What happens to the largest charitable gifts of failed banks? Read more

 
Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

Lenders' once-earnest feel-good slogans are now hopelessly ironic. Read More

Bailed Out--and Back

Bailed Out—and Back

The S&L rogues of the '80s and '90s: Where are they now? Read More

 
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