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October 07:

AGE OF RICHES

$6 Million for the Co-op, Then Start to Renovate

“There’s the new rich and there’s the old rich. There’s the poor rich and the rich rich.”

What would you do with $25,000? Buy a new Toyota Camry? Pay for six months at Harvard?

Instead, how about some really fancy chocolate?

THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL LOCATE EXEMPLARY PRODIGALITY. IT IS SPIRITUALLY NECESSARY. - George (Bush) Bataille




October 08:
As one former dancer observed, if a stripper is doing her job right, the patron’s bald spot, his mortgage (and maybe even his huge portfolio losses) cease to exist.