Piers Morgan, whose CNN talk show begins on Monday, is different from Larry King in many ways: obnoxious, obsessively prepared and a big self-promoter.

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Piers Morgan Sets Himself as Larry King’s Opposite

JP Morgan Chase reports a 47% jump in fourth-quarter net income, helped by narrowing losses on bad loans.

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JP Morgan reports 47% profit jump

To complete a half-dozen college applications, Morgan Malone lined up letters of recommendation, penned essays and – for George Mason University – carried around a video camera for several days.

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College applicants try to sharpen their profiles with video essays

The fast-growing social buying site locks up $500 million in fresh funds from Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price and other large investors.

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DealBook: New Capital for Groupon Sets Stage for an Offering

JP Morgan says it will move into Lehman Brothers’ old London headquarters, and will continue work on a new skyscraper.

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JP Morgan reveals new London HQ

In Sunday’s New York Times magazine, Roger Lowenstein profiles Jamie Dimon , head of JP Morgan Chase. The piece, titled “Jamie Dimon: America’s Least-Hated Banker,” is generally sympathetic, but in every significant detail it confirms that Mr. Dimon is now – without question – our most dangerous banker . Mr. Dimon is not dangerous because he is in any narrow sense incompetent. On the contrary, Mr. Dimon is very good at getting what he wants. read more

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Jamie Dimon: Becoming Too Big to Save – Creating Fiscal Disaster

This has to be cold comfort for the thousands of people wronged by Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. Court documents reveal that two months prior to Madoff’s arrest for fraud, JP Morgan Chase suspected the investment banker of wrongdoing, but the bank…

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JP Morgan Chase Suspected Madoff

The former US ambassador to Zimbabwe thought the then opposition leader, now Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai was a “flawed figure”, Wikileaks says.

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US doubts Tsvangirai – Wikileaks

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai sues President Robert Mugabe over the appointment of provincial governors in a new sign of worsening relations.

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Zimbabwe PM takes Mugabe to court

The bank is bidding goodbye to its Process Driven Trading unit, which made $4 billion in the 10 years through 2006. More from the scoop by DealBook’s Anita Raghavan: “A separation between Morgan Stanley and Mr. Muller has been in discussions for years, but talks accelerated in the wake of the passage in July of the Dodd-Frank Act, which restricts proprietary trading by Wall Street firms. Morgan Stanley and Mr. Muller had been discussing another option where the unit would have moved to Morgan Stanley Asset Management. But the act makes that far less likely now, said people close to the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly.”

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DealBook: Quants and Morgan Stanley to Part

North Carolina Republican congressional candidate B.J. Lawson has apologized for falsely claming that Morgan Freeman did the voiceover in one of his ads. “We’re apologizing to Congressman Price, to the voters, and most of all to Morgan Freeman because…

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Morgan Freeman in Campaign-Ad Spat

The reopening of the restored McKim building at the Morgan Library & Museum inspires oohing and aahing.

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Art Review: Let There Be Light, and Elegance

JP Morgan reports a quarterly profit of $4.4bn, thanks to “solid earnings” from its investment bank and reduced credit costs.

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JP Morgan reports $4.4bn profit

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai accuses President Robert Mugabe of violating the constitution and unilateral decision-making.

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Zimbabwe PM furious at president

J.P. Morgan Chase, one of the nation’s leading banks, announced Wednesday that it will freeze foreclosures in about half the country because of flawed paperwork, a move that Wall Street analysts said will pressure the rest of the industry to follow suit. Foreclosure – JPMorgan Chase – United States – Business – Ally Financial

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J.P. Morgan will halt foreclosures