Time to move to Rochester

Two words: garbage plates.

Lo res photo of hi net worth individuals

Another in my continuing series of really low-quality cameraphone photos of book parties, this time from the hoedown for Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas Evolving at the Mercedes dealership on Park Avenue Monday night. I took the photo from out on the sidewalk. Inside were a bunch of people who make a whole lot more money [...]

Beckham: Not washed-up just yet

With David Beckham’s hugely expensive arrival in Los Angeles coming ever closer, it might be worth revisiting just what he’s been doing back in Madrid. From Richard Williams’ blog at Guardian.co.uk: Last January 13, two days after he announced that he would be moving to Los Angeles next season, Fabio Capello said the Englishman would [...]

Bob Herbert gives hedge fund managers a big raise

From Bob Herbert’s column in today’s NYT (available to subscribers only): A lot of New Yorkers are doing awfully well. There are 8 million residents of New York City, and roughly 700,000 are worth a million dollars or more. The average price of a Manhattan apartment is $1.3 million. The annual earnings of the average [...]