The coverline touting Michael Lewis's story in the December Portfolio reads "A New Breed Of Investors Think You Can Get Rich Without Really Trying. They May Be Right." Oh Portfolio. It is so cool you get to sit next to Si at the Conde Xmas party, but maybe hire a copyeditor.

The Daily News may not turn a profit this year, according to owner Mort Zuckerman, who told a British Parliamentary group studying the media in September that the news business is "a glorious way to lose money." In fact, in minutes from Zuckerman's meeting with the group Conde Nast Portfolio's December issue will have 111.3 ad pages, At midnight, Conde Nast Portfolio editor Joanne Lipman sent out an email about It's apparently been the best-kept secret in town that Chris Jones, the managing editor of Portfolio.com, Finally found the November Porfolio last night! (It's slowly trickling downtown where the poors live.) You know what was striking? There are seven book reviews in it—6 of them between 100 and 200 words, each of those with a byline. But occupying one-third of page 150 is an unbylined review of "Crawfish Mountain," a new book by Portfolio's own senior editor Ken Wells! It's an extraordinarily detailed plot summary, and is headlined "From Our Staff." Whoever wrote it sure does know the book inside and out—at the very least, we can sure confirm that it's a terrible editorial call to have run