Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens'… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
“Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. — Graydon Carter Copy Share
The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. — Graydon Carter Copy Share
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to… — Graydon Carter Copy Share
