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more about #lehmanbrothers more comments → deitybox: Yes! The boys must dress in drag! It's the American Way! Anything else is giving in to the Homosexual Agenda! wait what?? I want the School Board to... more » EddieTheDane: I didn't read all the posts, so if this is old news, I apologize, but Kinkaid is the high school alma mater of Wes Anderson. I'm thinking the cross-d... more » i'm a bottle: In some nations, this could be settled with a bribe. Let him move to one of those places. more » nicepony: And right now in Houston, mom's wearing David Yurman jewelry are saying; "You can read the letter where? What is Gawker y'all?" more » Foster Kamer: The image of a Lehman exec's teenage son blinking back tears of confused rage, shame, and filial protectiveness makes for a somewhat fascinating table... more » once: Trying to save LEHMAN jobs, which was part of the sale deal. Didn't mention that to his son -heads rolled from a lot of Barclays employees & many more... more » NorthernLite: I was about to say things are not going to go well for sonny boy either amongst some of his peers, now that daddy's embarrassing letter has leaked. Bu... more » Astroblack: I keep reading that school's name as Kink-Aid. Sounds like a fundraiser put on by the Leather/S&M community. more » BadUncle: Yes, you entitled dick. We've "lost our way." From a lurching trail leading to incivility, ignorance and white trash hostility. more » iplaudius: If at a private school for rich people in Texas a guy like this is complaining, then (1) there is no silent majority and (2) things are looking up. more » LatestBy: Let me talk Texas to you for a second, son: Even your beloved George W. Bush was a cheerleader, but it doesn't mean he wore a skirt. more » Mo MoDo: As for Andrew Edison, the Wacky Non-Candidate always wins student government president elections. Ours went onto a distinguished career as a penny sto... more » BettyCrocker: Oh, Texas. That explains it all. more » FormerEnglishMajor: Why is a gay female coach telling high school girls on her team that she was disappointed in them for belonging to the spirit club (SOK) and that by d... more » Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Even the idiots at my Catholic school who lip-synched "Dude looks like a lady" while in drag at a pep rally knew that they would get 30 days suspensio... more » -
#angryletter
'Highest Paid Man on Wall Street' Ignites Culture War at His Kid's Prep School
Hugh "Skip" McGee III has a rumored $25 million salary at Barclays, and he finds lefties and lesbians just sickening. In an epic letter to the board of his son's school, he implores the "silent majority" to strike back. More » -
#recessionomics
Andrew Ross Sorkin's Front Row Seat to the End Of The World
Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail describes, in intimate detail, the days leading up to the collapse of the biggest financial institutions in America. Did the men in that room pull us from the brink or push us over? More » -
#bankers
Lehman Bankers One Year Later: Same People, Same Psychological Shortcomings
The NYT Business section did a nice little Where Are They Now on some fallen banker komrades from Lehman Brothers. Are they destitute? Are they happier? Are they better than they were before? And: should we feel bad for them? More » -
#realestateporn
Dick and Kathy Fuld's Park Ave Party Palace
The Observer reports today that embattled and failed Lehman Brothers exec Dick Fuld is selling his massive Park Avenue home for around $32 million. On the market for a mansion? Let's take a look inside.
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#banksters
Unsatisfied With Launching a Financial Holocaust, Lehman Brothers Is Now Planning a Nuclear One
When it wasn't busy blowing up the economy, Bloomberg reports, Lehman Brothers was trading uranium—the same stuff that George Bush famously claimed Saddam Hussein was importing from Niger. Funny, we invaded Iraq for that. More » -
#recessionomics
Are Our Economic Masters' Ring Fingers Long Enough?
Men with unusually long ring fingers are more likely to be either a successful stock trader, or gay. So what does that tell us about the government's wise men patching up the economy? More » -
#greedisgood
Even Wall Street Now Hates the Rich
With bonuses slashed, investment bankers are starting to turn on their own. The year money forgot saw a handful of opportunistic contrarians stack up the tall dollars. Now they're getting cut down in the press. More » -
#yearinreview
The Worst Moments of the Panic of '08
Everyone wants a neat explanation of the panic that destroyed the economy and put the government in charge of Wall Street. Good luck with that! Here's a look back on the year money forgot. More » -
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#thepanicof08
Lehman Boss's Weekend from Hell
On the September weekend when Wall Street went poof, a friendless Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old securities firm, couldn't get his phone calls returned. -
#sadthings
Kathy Fuld's Recessiony $10,000 'Secret Shopping' Sprees
Fabulously rich people are nothing if not sensitive. Take Kathy Fuld, who still goes on once-a-week $5,000-10,000 shopping sprees at Hermès, but nowadays, so she doesn't offend anyone, she tries to keep quiet about it.
