Don’t hate investment bankers for raking in millions. Invest in their absurdly profitable (yet still undervalued) outfits and share the wealth.

Citarella adjusts to Harlem.

Bear Stearns Cafeteria hit with 42 health-code violations.

UES stores boxed in.

The hedge-fund elite.

Hedge-fund wives and where they come from.

Competition, as any freshman economics student will tell you, brings down prices. It works for computers and for phone calls and for cars. Why not for hedge funds?

For almost everything in New York, hedge-funders are the high bidders. And if you’ve got something to sell, what a wonderful thing that is.

Why hedge funds cluster in the world’s most expensive habitats.

Maybe you were hoping that hedge funds were another passing fad that you could safely ignore. Well, they are a fad, but they show no evidence of passing, and we are now living in the wildest, most unrestrained financial moment in recent history. So it’s time to stop faking it and figure out what it’s all about.