{"id":1290,"date":"2017-05-10T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:29:41","slug":"wall-street-confessions-guilty-pleasures-indulgences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/wall-street-confessions-guilty-pleasures-indulgences\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Confessions: Guilty Pleasures &#038; Indulgences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the point of having f&#8212; you money if you never say f&#8212; you?&#8221; \u2013 Bobby Axelrod (Damien Lewis) in the Showtime series &#8220;Billions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>F&#8212; you money is a common expression on Wall Street. You work hard to earn that obscene paycheck so f\u2014you, I&#8217;m going to spend hard, too. Bobby Axelrod&#8217;s No. 2 at Axe Capital, &#8220;Wags&#8221; is famous for one-liners about indulgence like &#8220;Yo, b\u2014es! Saddle up. Body shots and sushi at the strip joint, on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Real-life hedgies like Wags know f\u2014you money is offensive and they don&#8217;t care. Spend it if you got it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; a portfolio manager responded when asked why he spends so extravagantly. &#8220;It&#8217;s simple math, I make a lot so I spend a lot. If the AmEx bill comes in under $20k, I wonder what I did wrong that month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/10\/wall-street-percent-u2019s-obscene-spending-confessions-percent-u2014commentary.html\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the point of having f&#8212; you money if you never say f&#8212; you?&#8221; \u2013 Bobby Axelrod (Damien Lewis) in the Showtime series &#8220;Billions&#8221; F&#8212; you money is a common expression on Wall Street. You work hard to earn that obscene paycheck so f\u2014you, I&#8217;m going to spend hard, too. Bobby Axelrod&#8217;s No. 2 at &#8230; <a title=\"Wall Street Confessions: Guilty Pleasures &#038; Indulgences\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/wall-street-confessions-guilty-pleasures-indulgences\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wall Street Confessions: Guilty Pleasures &#038; Indulgences\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}