Money Never Sleeps: Wall Street, Stoned

“Are you a bee? Do you like to sting people?” a handsome banking executive in a merlot-colored suit growls to his protégé. It is early afternoon in the third-floor offices of a midtown skyscraper, the News Corporation headquarters, and select middle-aged men are watching an advanced screening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the Oliver Read More

Gordon Gekko Goes Global

“You’re catching me at a crazy time,” Michael Shvo said over the phone from his limo last month.

The audacious marketing genius behind such hugely hyped high-end condo projects as Bryant Park Tower and 20 Pine The Collection had just returned to Manhattan after several weeks overseas. While family business took top priority—his father Read More

Way Better Than Briefs: Legal Minds Turn to Blogs

Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More

Way Better Than Briefs: Legal Minds Turn to Blogs

Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More

The New Upper Class: Oh, What Happy People!

Well now, let’s bring on the Bobos and see if they can make it in the language. There is no predicting about gimmicky ideas such as this one. Only time and the success of an adroit publicity campaign will tell us if “Bobo” is to be the successor term to “yuppie.” As it stands, the Read More

Day Trader Loses $800,000, Says It Doesn’t Matter

It was a boys’ night out. Caesar salads, steaks, creamed spinach, whisky and big talk at the Palm on Second Avenue at East 45th Street. Someone’s brother, Eric Welsh, 27, showed up. I ended up in a cab with him. On the way downtown, he said he was a day trader and had lost $800,000 Read More