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  • Fifty Billion Shades of Gray – Aug 24, 2018

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    Billions: Integrating Mental Health, Finance, Silicon Valley Industries and Law and Order, with a Little Yonkers-Secret-Recipe-Pizza by Anna Kornbluh | Los Angeles Review of Books | August 24, 2018 Ten years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the global financial crisis of 2008. Democrats were eight years in power, and their failure to prosecute the…

  • Billions: Super Antiheros – April 24, 2018

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    The Superhero Show About Finance and the Tale of Two Warring Goliaths by Rachel Syme | The New Republic | April 24, 2018 Billions reckons with the inflated egos and muddled ethics of Wall Street. The first season of Billions premiered in January 2016— eight years after the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and eleven months before…

  • How To Dress Like a Billionaire – April 23, 2018

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    Now on its third season, Showtime’s dramedy “Billions” masterfully captures the changing dress codes of the finance world by Jacob Gallagher | Wall Street Journal | April 23, 2018 TYPE “BOBBY AXELROD” into Google and the first recommendation that pops up is “Bobby Axelrod hoodie.” So, to satisfy your curiosity: Mr. Axelrod, the cool-as-an-ice-cube-in-Alaska protagonist of…