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For almost everything in New York, hedge-funders are the high bidders. And if you’ve got something to sell, what a wonderful thing that is.

Alfred Winslow Jones invented what he called a �hedged fund.� The name’s been bastardized, and so has just about everything else about it.

Competition, as any freshman economics student will tell you, brings down prices. It works for computers and for phone calls and for cars. Why not for hedge funds?

Hedge-fund wives and where they come from.

The hedge-fund elite.

Maybe you were hoping that hedge funds were another passing fad that you could safely ignore. Well, they are a fad, but they show no evidence of passing, and we are now living in the wildest, most unrestrained financial moment in recent history. So it’s time to stop faking it and figure out what it’s all about.

The many meanings of the workplace.

Protect yourself �it’s a jungle out there.

Joshua Ferris, author of the lauded satire Then We Came to the End, talks about the Chicago ad agency where his office education began.

How to Win by Losing It.