Sublime

From that moment, Meredith Whitney became E. F. Hutton: When she spoke, people listened. Her message was clear: If you want to know what these Wall Street firms are really worth, take a cold, hard look at these crappy assets they’re holding with borrowed money, and imagine what they’d fetch in a fire sale. The vast assemblages of highly paid people

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North of Mackay lay the principality of Childs Frick, son of Henry Clay Frick, baron of coal and coke, who had gained his legendary wealth during the Panic of 1873 by purchasing for a pittance the land of desperate farmers without telling them that it contained coal, the raw material of the coke essential to steelmaking, then by crushing other

out on June 5 when Senator Chuck Schumer of New York held a heavily covered news conference, at which he decried the brazen business of Silk Road and called for prosecutors to shut it down. He described Bitcoin as an “online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who’s both selling and buying the drug.”

Bitcoin, invented by a mysterious figure, Satoshi Nakomoto, whose true identity is the subject of many a conspiracy theory, experienced even more of a rollercoaster ride than gold in 2011, soaring in value from less than $1 a bitcoin to almost $30, before plunging below $5. Many thought that this apparent bursting of a bitcoin bubble would put an

Gary leaned back in his chair as Serrin leaned forward in his.

She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.