Working Life

Just in case you wondered if the pigs weren’t still at the trough looking to take every dollar they could.

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   I love it when billionaires feel misunderstood. It sounds something like this: “I’ve fleeced you or just piled up gobs of money at your expense but, gee, that really wasn’t personal, I’m really a good guy with all the right motives, if you could just see it my way because, well, my way is […]

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    I am continuously amazed by the reverence accorded company bosses. Put aside the incompetent ones, who get huge severance packages when they leave, or those who have looted their companies of tens of millions of dollars in pay and benefits, even when the companies lose money or collapse. I’m talking about even the ones […]

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    It is easy if you are a billionaire to get attention. You spend a ton of money on some idea–even it’s sheer lunacy–and you can buy attention. Donald Trump did it–but his  "pursuit" of the presidency was just another comical vanity play in his comical life. Pete Peterson is another story–and the outcome of […]

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    Wouldn’t it be nice if you could decide how much of your income you pay to the government–and, then, decide how much you’d like to get back? If you could start a little business advising people on how to pull off that little stunt, you’d be a rich man.     Welcome to the world […]

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    It never ceases to amaze me how much people are willing to practice the art of greed, particularly in the corporate world. Blackstone, one of the biggest player in the private equity world, is going public. The take for the top dogs, according to The Wall Street Journal: The founders of private-equity firm Blackstone […]

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