Quote from Cutten:
Stories like this are so common. It's amazing to me how many people just assume the good times will always continue to roll. Going from multiple 6-figure years to penury in 18 months is just ridiculous.
So if he was on 200k per year, paying 80k in taxes, then over 5 years the government got 400k, and various NYC businesses, the bank, and the guy who sold him the condo got the other 600k. The broker made 1 mill in 5 years and got ZERO at the end of it.
Total lunacy.