The average New York City securities industry bonus went up eight percent last year, to $121,890. Surprised? Didn't think so. Wall Street has been climbing for 25 years. The chart here shows you why.
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Photographer: Price Chambers/Bloomberg
Mountain ranges like the Grand Tetons took millennia to grow to their present size. Wall Street bonuses? More like 25 years.
The Reason Wall Street Got So Rich, In Two Charts
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The San Remo apartment building, on New York's Upper West Side.
4 BRs, $29,750 a Month: a Story of Inflation
In 1940, the most expensive apartment in the San Remo, the Art Deco masterpiece looking out over Central Park, rented for $900 a month. A more typical price was $540. Now an apartment there lists for $29,750 a month, a...
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