1.0 link 134241 <![CDATA[How Poor Are You?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-ward/how-poor-are-you_b_134241.html "How poor are you?" That's what formerly rich guys ranging from hedge-fund kings and tech pioneers to bankers and trust-fund heirs are now asking each other at dinners around town.

This group doesn't care who ends up buying Wachovia. That's all background news; just one more sorry piece of detail in the carnage of a lost battle that's left them ruined. None believes US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan or its revisions can stave off devastation.

For a society that has pretended...

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