The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward […]
Month: March 2009
Dear A.I.G., I Quit!
How Starbucks Saved My Life
How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born […]
Escape
Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching […]
Estero De Americano
JPMorgan Earns $5B Derivatives Profit
By Matthew Leising and Elizabeth Hester JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed to generate $5 billion in profit during the worst year in Wall Street history […]
The Melting Pot
The Bodessis took us out to dinner on Saturday night to celebrate Mrs. V’s 30th; after our fondue experience on our recent trip to Banff we […]