The financial world is suddenly rich in tragedy. People once worth billions are now worth millions; ...
The financial world is suddenly rich in tragedy. People once worth billions are now worth millions; others, once worth millions, now are straining to make the payments on their Range Rovers. These sort of reversals give rise to bitterness in the victims and glee in everyone else. During the internet stock boom of the late-1990s, the business sections of every newspaper reeked of the joy of the tycoons; now they reek of the thinly disguised glee of people who didn't have the nerve to become tycoons. The message that the spineless horde wants to get across is the same message that the spin...
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