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  1. ballsy crimes
    Hedge-Funders Are Now Supposed to Be Nervous About the SECPerhaps for the first time.
    By Chris Rovzar
  2. ballsy crime
    Rajaratnam Gave Lots of Money to the Tamil TigersThis isn’t going to end well.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  3. ballsy crime
    Hedge-Funder Raj Rajaratnam Got Cranky When People Refused to Partake in His Insider-Trading SchemeRaj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of New York–based hedge fund Galleon Group, has been arrested. Things look pretty bad.
    By Jessica Pressler
  4. ballsy crime
    Buy Sam Israel’s Getaway WheelsAnother piece of financial-fraud history is yours for the taking.
    By Jessica Pressler
  5. white men with money
    Two Jurors Rejected in Bear Stearns TrialOne prospective juror wrote that big financial firms “always try to bend the rules to make as much money as possible.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  6. italian men with money
    Hedge-Fund Manager Paolo Pellegrini Is a Jazz Lover With ‘Entry-level Supercars’John Paulson’s former right-hand man is charming in a Hannibal Lecter kind of way.
    By Jessica Pressler
  7. If We Were Friends With John Paulson, Part VIWhat our IM conversation with hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson would have been like today, if we were friends.
    By Jessica Pressler
  8. Wife of Recently Retired Goldman Hedge-Fund Chief Drove Her Car Into a TreeSee? This is what happens when they’re home all the time.
    By Jessica Pressler
  9. 35-Year-Old Billionaire John Arnold Speaks in TonguesHappily, so do we.
    By Jessica Pressler
  10. crimes of passion
    Everyone in Hedge-Fund Sexual-Harrassment Story Appears GuiltyWe have looked at the evidence and rendered our verdict.
    By Jessica Pressler
  11. fake suicide is painful
    Sam Israel Gets Two More Years for Faking SuicideWhich is not bad, relatively speaking.
    By Jessica Pressler
  12. fake suicide is painful
    Judge May Impose Longer, Trendier Sentence on Sam IsraelGotta keep up with the times, you know.
    By Jessica Pressler
  13. real estate porn
    Steve Cohen’s Son Saddled With Subpar PadDad only laid out $2.7 million for junior.
    By Jessica Pressler
  14. the bonus buster
    Andrew Cuomo Has a Money-Management ProblemSome of his money seems to have rubbed against some other money, improperly.
    By Jessica Pressler
  15. the greatest depression
    Monster Weeds Overtake Hedges of Greenwich“This is the enemy of the year.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  16. imaginary conversations
    If We Were Friends With John Paulson, Part VWhat our IM conversation with hedge-funder John Paulson would have been like today, if we were friends.
    By Jessica Pressler
  17. white men with money
    At First, John Paulson Was in a Wolf Pack of One …Now he has been joined by other hedge-fund managers, and they are all making lots of money together. Why?
    By Hugo Lindgren
  18. ackmanimal
    Bill Ackman Had a DreamThe activist investor cries, evokes Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK, after losing fight with Target board.
    By Jessica Pressler
  19. white men with money
    David Einhorn Strikes AgainEinhorn attacks Geithner, Buffett, “hope” at annual hedge-fund conference.
    By Hugo Lindgren
  20. white men with money
    ‘I’ve Given So Many Depositions I Swear to Tell the Whole Truth When I Order Dinner in a Restaurant’Pequot Capital founder Arthur Samberg is closing his hedge fund after being targeted by the SEC yet again.
    By Jessica Pressler
  21. the greatest depression
    Unemployed Now Need to Compete With People Who Will Work for FreeSorry, jobless.
    By Jessica Pressler
  22. white men with money
    Hedge-Funder Cliff Asness Admits He Has a Little Problem With AngerThe scribe behind one of the best eff-you letters of the financial crisis is open about his personal demons.
    By Jessica Pressler
  23. this is not a cheerocracy
    Obama Now Planning to Cut Basically Everyone’s PayThe Obama administration is considering regulating compensation in the financial-services industry, and beyond.
    By Jessica Pressler
  24. you can’t fight city hall
    Hedge Funds Get Beat Down by The ManThe dissident lenders attempting to block the sale of Chrysler’s assets to Italy have given up.
    By Jessica Pressler
  25. you’ve got hate mail
    Hedge-Funder Cliff Asness Is Not Afraid of Barack ObamaOkay, he’s a little afraid. But he’s going to be a man about it, at least.
    By Jessica Pressler
  26. the greatest depression
    Boulevard of Broken DividendsStamford, Connecticut, has fallen on hard times.
    By Jessica Pressler
  27. white men with money
    Sticking Up for the Little Hedge-Fund GuyThe lenders Obama castigated yesterday were doing the right thing.
    By Jessica Pressler
  28. white men with rubber duckies
    Hedge-Funder Bill Ackman Has Fishies in His ShowerThe Pershing Square manager has put his home on the market, and allows us a glimpse into his shower.
    By Jessica Pressler
  29. early and often
    Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy, Debtholders Cry FoulAnd when it hits them that only thing they’re getting out of this is a new enemy in President Obama, they’ll really be crying.
    By Jessica Pressler
  30. white men with money
    So, What Did You Do Today, John Paulson?For the hedge-fund rock star, Friday the 13th was lucky.
    By Jessica Pressler
  31. white men with money
    Why Should Vulture Investors Help Out America When America Is So Mean to Them?“Vulture” investors are sick of looking like the carrion-eating creeps they are.
    By Hugo Lindgren
  32. the greatest depression
    John Meriwether, the Wile E. Coyote of Hedge FundsWe thought the Long-Term Capital Management founder had blown up for good, but now he’s running around with a new stick of dynamite.
    By Hugo Lindgren
  33. white men with money
    John Paulson Wins AgainThe hedge fund posts awesome returns.
    By Jessica Pressler
  34. the greatest depression
    Don’t Let the Recession Get in the Way of Your Dreams of Becoming a Trophy WifeA big empty mansion in Greenwich can still be yours!
    By Jessica Pressler
  35. the greatest depression
    The Complete John Paulson’This is, after all, a man whose mind has been set on making vast, historic amounts of money since he was a kid.’
    By Jessica Pressler
  36. the greatest depression
    Marc Dreier’s Amazing HoaxA Park Avenue lawyer is accused of swindling hedge funds out of millions.
    By Jessica Pressler
  37. the greatest depression
    Hedge-Fund Manager Disgusted by Her Own KindSandra Manzke, a manager of a Darien-based hedge fund, sent out a mass e-mail this week to investors and members of the financial community decrying the sins committed by her contemporaries in the marketplace.
    By Jessica Pressler
  38. There Goes GreenwichOnce infested with wealthy hedge funders, Greenwich, Connecticut, is now infested with an entirely different species.
    By Jessica Pressler
  39. the greatest depression
    For John Paulson and Friends, the Gilded Age Hasn’t Ended1999 Chateau Margaux and 1999 Lafite-Rothschild, anyone?
    By Jessica Pressler
  40. the greatest depression
    Hedge-Fund Hearing Gets PersonalMark Souder from Indiana confronts George Soros.
    By Jessica Pressler
  41. white men with sunglasses on their penises
    Disgraced Hedge-Funder Sam Israel Goes Long in the BedroomHoly moly. The paramour of convicted hedge-funder Sam Israel talks to ‘Marie Claire’ all about their sex life this month.
    By Jessica Pressler
  42. company town
    Why Do Weather Reporters Need to Stand IN a Hurricane to Report on It?Do we really need Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and Brian Williams in Louisiana when they could cover the hurricane and the RNC at the same time? Plus, all your daily finance, real estate, law, and media news.
  43. cultural capital
    Developer Mark Mariani Shows Off His Own Personal WaldenThe New Yorker treats us to a surreal tour of the land of hedge funds.
    By Jessica Pressler
  44. in other news
    Jonathan Adler Helps New Yorkers With Their Decorating, and So Much MoreBare walls? Tacky linoleum? Gay husband? The interior-design maven shares his expertise.
  45. white men without money
    Judge Orders Samuel Israel to Hand Over His ToysDeems them a distraction.
  46. white men with money
    Hedgies of the ApocalypseAs the markets decline, hedge funds like Philip Falcone’s and John Paulson’s still manage to rake in the dough.
  47. company town
    Horizon Strategy’s John Devaney Says He Is ‘Bleeding, Personally’ After Loss of Hedge FundClearly, he doesn’t know Daily Intel’s golden rule. That and more, in our daily roundup of need-to-know news from the fields of finance, media, law, and real estate.
  48. white men with money
    Harbinger Capital Founder Philip Falcone Will Always Be ‘A Little Iron Ranger’ to the Folks Back in DuluthThe hedge-fund “big shot” gets taken down to size by his hometown newspaper.
  49. in other news
    Samuel Israel’s Lost WeekendThe missing hedge-funder decided that jail would be better than camping.
  50. in other news
    Ralph Cioffi Hangs On to His Dream HouseThe indicted Bear Stearns hedge-funder may lose almost everything, but he won’t lose that tony Hamptons address.
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