The two founders of private equity firm the Blackstone Group will take home $2.6 billion dollars when the company goes public. How'd you do today? [AP]
Superrich Trend Pieces: The Breakdown
That seemingly endless series of Times stories on the superrich got us thinking: Is this the start of a new trend? As it turns out, not exactly: Details covered very similar ground six months ago. But did fawning profiles of the obnoxiously wealthy really begin back in June? We sent Intern Mary on a quest back…
'Times' Still Concerned About Not-Yet-Obscenely Wealthy
And we officially have ourselves a trend! At least in the Times, which, as Seth Mnookin points out, is following up its Pulitzer-baiting "Class Matters" series with an incisive series of reports on "the plight of those who only break the top one percent of American wage earners." Today's entry in the saga is the Louis…
'Times' Fomenting Class War Between Least Neediest
"Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough pull up right alongside it." - David Lee Roth
