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1% Jokes and Plutocrats In Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
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Kevin Roose, a reporter for the New York Times bagged the story of a lifetime!
Amazing work Kevin, bravo!
Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight of Jews at Kristallnacht, Wall Street titans are saying that they’re sick of being beaten up, and this week, a billionaire investor, Wilbur Ross, proclaimed that “the 1 percent is being picked on for political reasons.”
Ross's statement seemed particularly odd, because two years ago, I met Ross at an event that might single-handedly explain why the rest of the country still hates financial tycoons – the annual black-tie induction ceremony of a secret Wall Street fraternity called Kappa Beta Phi.
See the rest here: includes pics
[link to nymag.com]
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