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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-usa-banks-jobs-idUSBRE8550RO20120606 It is going to start up all over again. More weenie bankers out of a job and with no one to turn to. :D
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/three_questions_after_a_wall_s.html After getting dumped from his Wall Street job, he becomes a handyman and his story is one of the happier endings.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://nymag.com/news/features/wall-street-2012-2/ A nice long article.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/07/brokerage-failures-Kaufman-WJB-ticonderoga/ Low volumes = weak revenue = layoffs :D
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/wall-street-bank-tech-startups_n_1200373.html Bloomberg’s idea to funnel Wall Street refugees into high tech start ups is making a comeback. The sad subtext is that outside of finance, many of these people are actually unemployable. Hence the need to...
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204331304577147750253122844.html :D
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    Pain & Pleasure

    The only way some of these people can continue doing what they do is if they medicate themselves with a high octane lifestyle. Sex, drugs, booze and lots of expensive toys. Plus, after tax and cost of living, you really do not have that much even though you may be pulling in half a million a year.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204368104577139060928687098.html http://www.cnbc.com/id/45868630 Someone needs to tell these idiots at Jeffries there is no point threatening to leave if everyone knows that there is nowhere for them to go to. This is yet another sign of how...
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/london-brokers-throw-in-the-towel-as-debt-crisis-hits-revenue.html The loss of habitat might just lead to a reduction in numbers :D.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/wall-st-layoffs-take-heavy-toll-on-younger-workers/?ref=business Went to the right schools, know the right people, good at what she does and she still gets fired. What kind of world do we live in? :D Time for the munchkin to grow up.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-22/wall-street-unoccupied-with-200-000-job-cuts.html# Good article, well worth a read.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/15/markets/Wall_Street_jobs/ :D
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    Will prostitution ever become a major American export?

    Not everyone gets to be on welfare. They actually engage in quite a bit of racial profiling at the welfare office. Plus you would need to do things like have kids out of the wedlock if you want to state to really pity you. Otherwise if you are an able bodied twenty something, the application is...
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    Will prostitution ever become a major American export?

    As it is, clubs and bars that hire foreigners as staff do tend to draw quite a crowd. The people are usually hired illegally, but no one cares. When they hear that someone with white skin and blond hair is serving drinks at club such and such, they make a beeline for the place just because it...
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    Will prostitution ever become a major American export?

    I expect the same phenomenon to occur in China. Hostesses are a big part of China's night life culture and the high end clubs will always want to be novel and different.
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    Will prostitution ever become a major American export?

    It is probably the "give me" attitude that will lead some of these women into prostitution because they crave the high octane lifestyle so intensely. A "me first" and "me only" view of life is in reality entirely nihilistic because the self finds no reference. How will American girls fare in...
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    Will prostitution ever become a major American export?

    When the Soviet Union fell apart, girls from Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia flooded the international sex market because selling their bodies became the only way to earn a decent living. As they were young and desperate enough to do anything, these girls practically became a brand. They...
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.businessinsider.com/things-to-do-on-wall-street-2011?op=1 Really, really, really lame.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/12/markets/wall_street_layoffs/?cnn=yes Poor babies. Now they are going to lose their jobs but you cannot call it a layoff.
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    Pain & Pleasure

    http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/09/02/2574344/bank-of-america-layoffs-could.html The Journal is saying that the lay-off carnage at BofA could reach 40,000 but no matter how you look at it there are going to be a lot of bankers out of a job in the months to come. For many of these...
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