I knew Zurich was expensive, but this is ridiculous
My friend was out partying in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday. He paid for his two drinks, a white and a black russian, and proceeded to pay - old school, restaurant style with a credit card.
By the way, who drinks white russians nowadays? What is this, 1997? Anyways, back to the tip:
He got a receipt for 34 swiss francs and that was that. Then he got a message from his bank informing him of his quite generous tip.
The picture below is proving one of two things. Ether that Swiss bankers are paid excessively or that someone committed some serious fraud.
I would also leave Goldman if I had to look at a naked Blankfein


Exerpts from the soon to be published tell-all by former Goldmanite Greg Smith are floating around Wall Street.
One in particual is surprising and interesting (published by WSJ):
Mr. Smith outlines moments when he came into close contact with Goldman’s chairman and chief executive, according to pages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Smith tells of one near-encounter when he saw Mr. Blankfein, sans clothes, after taking a shower at the gym. Mr. Blankfein was “air-drying,” Mr. Smith writes, something Mr. Smith took not as a display of power but as something men of an older generation tend to do.
Spanish banks downgraded
Felix Baumgartner wasn't the only one at 120.000 feet


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