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#00025 - The reckoning at the D&D

A veteran broker on what Fortress wants with the D&D — plus everything wrong with High Point, and Taylor Swift’s play for every creative in America

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Apr 30, 2026
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Claude Monet: Rain at Etretat

Hello readers,

I’m writing this from Venice, where my morning lungo macchiato comes with a side of canal fog and the sound of delivery boats hitting the dock at dawn. My schedule here is reversed—daytimes are for Venice, evenings for New York—and I’m running on clams, caffeine, and adrenaline. Massive week ahead.

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