Word: moneymen
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...Tops,” “Body Bag,” and “Capone,” each one differentiating his product as if he were selling candy bars. Moskos explains the sophistication of a street-level drug deal—from lookouts and moneymen to slingers and hired muscle—in a way that inspires some awe for such inner-city entrepreneurship. These stories reveal the conditions of Baltimore in a way that is no less useful than methodological research—if you choose to believe what the author claims to have lived through...
...hikes or budget cuts. With that in mind, House Ways & Means Chairman Charles Rangel has proposed paying for the patch by raising taxes on the bonuses and fees received by hedge fund and private equity managers - which is to say the bulk of their exorbitant incomes. Right now these moneymen pay a capital-gains rate on those fees and bonuses of just 15%. If they were subject to normal income tax - the one most Americans pay - the rate would more than double...
...projects in Africa, from low-cost housing to schools to mining ventures. Li, a key player in the blossoming romance between China and Africa, said he's visited more than 20 African nations in the past year alone. Others are eyeing the region more intently, too. A panel of moneymen from companies like JP Morgan and Barclays Capital spoke of mounting enthusiasm among foreign investors for leveraged buyouts of African firms, prompting bullish talk that Africa may be private equity's "next frontier...
...upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening oaf, as in the well-nigh-immortal Zoolander. The moneymen love Stiller too, because he's the rare comic star with international box-office clout...
...downfall is, of course, a perennial topic for filmmakers, and watching the news-seeing real-life tragedy of an appalling and insoluble nature befall their fellow human beings-gnaws at the entrails of some directors, inspiring them to forsake glitz for grit. That's very noble, the movie moneymen say, but will anybody pay to see your scalding exposé of how rotten everything is? The answer is they will, if the filmmaker is Michael Moore...