The Laboratorium : Shorter New York Times Style Section

The bankers who screwed up their companies by leveraging to the hilt and assuming the good times would never end also screwed up their personal finances by leveraging to the hilt and assuming the good times would never end.

February 9, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Biella

I loved this piece. But I have to say, I often find that the travel and style section of the NYTimes is written with these folks in mind!

February 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM

Frank

Thank you for the voice of concise and dismissive sanity that should have been the universal response to this article.

Just listening to some folks on the Slate culture gabfest try to rationalize these guys “living according to their station” was stomach-churning. (Even for someone who’s been conditioned by the book “The Idea of Luxury” to see the relativity of penury and prosperity!)

and worst of all….they took a gratuitous shot at the PATH!