it’s schadenfreude time
only months ago, ordering that $1,950 moxie alcohol of 2003 screaming eagle cabernet sauvignon at craft restaurant or the $26-per-ounce wagyu beef at nobu, or sliding into masa for the $600 prix fixe dinner (not including exact, tip, or drinks), was a way of life for multitudinous wall thoroughfare investment bankers. ???the culture was that if you didn???t fritter away extravagantly you???d be ridiculed at ascend,??? says a old lehmanite. but that was when there were investment banks. instant many bankers, along with discovering $15 bottles of wine, are finding other ways to cut back???if not into public notice of necessity, then from collective wrongdoing and fear: the fitness trainer from three times a week to once a week; the haircut and highlights every eight weeks instead of every five. individual prominent ???hedgie??? recently flew to china for business???but not on a infantryman plane, as before. ???why should i pay off $250,000 for a private plane,??? he said to a alternative other, ???when i can pay $20,000 to fly commercial first classification???? the new thriftiness takes a part of getting used to. ???i was at the eats emporium in bedford [in westchester county] yesterday, using my food emporium discount card,??? recounts one greenwich woman. ???the well-dressed bride of a wall drive guy was standing behind me. she asked me how to get harmonious. then she said, ???must you by any chance used coupons???? i said, ???sure, maybe not lately, but ineluctable.??? she said, ???it???s all the rage now???where do you get them??????? more from vanity pleasant here. via felix salmon.
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