Bear Stearns Cafeteria hit with 42 health-code violations.

UES stores boxed in.

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

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.

Alfred Winslow Jones invented what he called a “hedged fund.” The name’s been bastardized, and so has just about everything else about it.

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?

Hedge-fund wives and where they come from.

The hedge-fund elite.

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.

Protect yourself —it’s a jungle out there.