Things Worth Noting
Jeffrey Epstein rose from a working-class Brooklyn background and college dropout to a financier worth nearly $600 million by 2019 through sharp networking and high-end financial services. Starting as a math teacher at Dalton School, he entered Wall Street at Bear Stearns in 1976, quickly becoming a limited partner focused on options trading. After leaving […]
In 1992, Robert Downey Jr. visited Wall Street’s NYMEX trading floor in the World Trade Center for his documentary “The Last Party.” Shocked by the chaos, he called brokers “money-hungry immature motherf*kers” and said, “If money is evil, this building is hell.” The frenzied deals, shouts, and greed left him stunned, highlighting Wall Street’s ruthless […]