Preferably an expensive cheese, like their girlfriends like. After all, when Morgan Stanley bonuses this year were capped at $150K … well, insanity ensued.
'"After tax, that’s like, what, $75,000?" an investment banker at a rival firm said as he contemplated Morgan Stanley’s decision. He ran the numbers, modeling the implications. "I’m not married and I take the subway and I watch what I spend very carefully. But my girlfriend likes to eat good food. It all adds up really quick. A taxi here, another taxi there. I just bought an apartment, so now I have a big old mortgage bill."'
The horror …. the horror … #ddtb
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Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Bankers are lucky God himself didnt come down and boot them out of their new condos.
What the fuck is wrong with these people. How can you be that disconnected from reality? Ugh!
Well, Sell your apartment and get something more modest…big ole mortgage bill solved! Now you will have money for "good food".
"But … but … who can afford to buy my incredibly overpriced downtown Manhattan flat when the commies are rabble-rousing the government into destroying the banking industry? I mean, I hardly have any cake to eat!"