Friday, August 28, 2009

THE RICH HAVE FEELINGS, TOO: a short story by Tom Wolfe in Vanity Fair. "Losing billions is stressful, and the brave financiers who risk other people’s money need a way to cool out—hopping on the GV, say, for a bimbo-boffing weekend in the Bahamas. Thanks to the bailout, that’s history. The author imagines one fictional highflier’s shock as he rejoins the commercial-aviation herd."