A real-life financial thriller that traces the growth of private capital through the story of the Apollo chief — and the ...

In “Money to Burn,” William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.

We can readily understand why investors are attracted to unprofitable companies. For example, although Amazon.com made losses for many years after listing, if you had bought and held the shares since ...

The story starts with Michael Milken, a junk-bond trader who led a financial revolution from the Los Angeles office of Drexel Burnham Lambert, an investment bank. He more or less created the market ...