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In This Issue of Condé Nast Portfolio
The 73 Biggest Brains in Business
Brilliant Brackets
The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem
The Pentagon got spanked for its infamous $640 toilet seats. But two decades and billions of dollars later, the military budget is still a mess. Will the Defense Department ever pass an audit? Read More
How Mickey Got His Groove Back
First, the Disney machine found a moneymaker in a character called Hannah Montana. Then it faced a quandary: how to keep making money from its superstar, Miley Cyrus, once she grew up. Read More
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The Taming of Merrill Lynch
John Thain scaled Goldman Sachs and went on to save the New York Stock Exchange. Now the new Merrill C.E.O. is facing a real challenge. Read More
The Worst Investment in America?
The era of press barons is a mere memory—yet the Zells and the Murdochs are still snapping up broadsheets. Why on earth would anyone buy a newspaper these days? Read More
The Great Depression Debate
If bailouts are going to rule the new era on Wall Street, regulators will need less Greenspan-style lenience and more F.D.R.-style force. Read More
Mr. Personalities
Could a President McCain mend the economy and fix the tax system? That would depend on which version of the G.O.P. candidate took office.
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McCain's Brains
The Escort Economy
Eliot Spitzer didn't come close to paying the highest price for an elite call-girl visit. There's a lot of money changing hands at the top of the world's oldest profession. Read More
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It's (Really) the Economy, Stupid
Global warming, health-care reform, Iraq: Every campaign issue could get swamped by our financial crisis. Read More
Horse Cents
A bottled-water magnate from Queens, New York, entered the horseracing business for fun; $10 million and 150 horses later, he has a serious hobby on his hands. Read More
Keeping Up With Jones
Can the new Indiana Jones movie shed its 1980s sheen to compete in today's multiplex marketplace? An index of Indy metrics—from the box office to the divorce courts. Read More
Power House
This spring, Christie's is betting that a Modern architectural masterpiece can sell at auction—as a work of art. Read More
If You Build It ...
After two decades of planning, ground still has not been broken on the national monument to Martin Luther King Jr. Standing in the way: $7 million and—shockingly enough—bureaucratic red tape. Read More
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Rash or Rational?
Book review: Do people basically make good decisions? Or should society give us a little push? Read More
Deficit, Schmeficit
Why the next president should spend, not save.
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Wall Street's Divided Loyalties
The Company Car
The economy may be in neutral, but C.E.O.'s are still treated to top-notch rides. Read More
A Goal-Oriented Move
Three years after the $1.5 billion purchase of the world's best-known soccer team.
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