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The sun was coming up. Again. Not good. I’d been up for three days on a bender. It was like a one-man bachelor party. To call me an addict is underselling it. I loved cocaine like Leo loved that chick in Titanic. Every night in my dreams — I see you, I feel you.  I … Read more

The sun was coming up. Again. Not good. I’d been up for three days on a bender. It was like a one-man bachelor party. To call me an addict is underselling it. I loved cocaine like Leo loved that chick in Titanic. Every night in my dreams — I see you, I feel you.  I … Read more

This summer, while my daughter and other kids went to summer camp, I spent a weekend at what you might call an adult summer camp … at Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler’s house. No, it wasn’t all running around throwing water balloons in our Spanx (Sara is the founder of Spanx). The idea was “Live Life … Read more

Here]s an article I wrote for American Consequences magazine – I think it’s interesting to see the difference between retail investors and institutional. https://americanconsequences.com/blue-apron-a-two-sided-tale-on-wall-street/

As a child I was always asked what I wanted to be when I grew up – I always had an answer, but never a reason why. So when my daughter told me she wanted to work for the ASPCA someday I decided to take her there and see if she really wanted to… READ … Read more

And the dying art of wining & dining on Wall Street – here’s the link to a new magazine American Consequences – Read Article

After graduation, I made millions of dollars climbing to the top of Mount Wall Street. It took years, but I did it. Then I lost it all falling face first off the side of the mountain. Eventually, I walked away from the business and reinvented myself. But in order to fall from great heights, you … Read more

“What’s the point of having f— you money if you never say f— you?” – Bobby Axelrod (Damien Lewis) in the Showtime series “Billions” F— you money is a common expression on Wall Street. You work hard to earn that obscene paycheck so f—you, I’m going to spend hard, too. Bobby Axelrod’s No. 2 at … Read more

Getting a job on Wall Street was the first of like ten boxes I thought I needed to check in order to be happy. The last box — the finish line — was to make a “stick,” which means earn one million dollars in a year. A decade into my career I was sitting on … Read more

Wall Street wasn’t initially sold on a President Trump — typically markets hate uncertainty and he seems to bring it by the metric ton. But, it’s been a solid first-quarter performance for the market since Trump was elected, with all three major indexes — the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq — hitting new highs in … Read more