<p>Author Bill Cohan has written a fascinating whodunit about the rise and fall of General Electric. Founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, GE rose to become a corporate behemoth featuring a $600 billion market cap, and a triple-A credit rating. Today, GE has all but disappeared, its market cap down to $87 billion. Bill performs the autopsy and tells me what happened.</p>

Author Bill Cohan has written a fascinating whodunit about the rise and fall of General Electric. Founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, GE rose to become a corporate behemoth featuring a $600 billion market cap, and a triple-A credit rating. Today, GE has all but disappeared, its market cap down to $87 billion. Bill performs the autopsy and tells me what happened.

Who Turned the Lights Out at General Electric? | Bill Cohan

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Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to analyze national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Daily News, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three books: The Mother Court—Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court, and Plaintiff in Chief—A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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