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While the Buy Diazepam England poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and Buy Diazepam England while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to Buy Diazepam England get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who Buy Diazepam England earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to Buy Diazepam England classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a Buy Diazepam England bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for Buy Diazepam England 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.

These and Buy Diazepam England other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who Buy Diazepam England feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or Buy Diazepam England some other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.

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At the Association of Social Anthropologists Blog: Most notably, banking conferences – like marriages – provide a Buy Diazepam England chance for a social group to assemble iin one place, in a Buy Diazepam England way that reaffirms their common identity and enabled them to forge new alliances, often in opposition to Buy Diazepam England others. It also provides a forum for the group to restate their core assumptions and Buy Diazepam England ideas in a manner that allows the group to reproduce and Buy Diazepam England disseminate a cognitive map, over time. Some of this is done overtly, and Buy Diazepam England self-consciously, with power-point presentations on a podium, or deliberate, carefully chosen branding and Buy Diazepam England marketing campaigns. However, the most powerful forms of intellectual ‘reproduction’ occur through more informal means: the Buy Diazepam England gossip around the bar about bonuses (that Buy Diazepam England reinforces the dominant assumption that bigger pay is tantamount to Buy Diazepam England success); the use of complex mathematical language to discuss credit (which makes it Buy Diazepam England acceptable to talk about money for hours on end, without ever mentioning a Buy Diazepam England human being); the Buy Diazepam England sartorial conformity, as bankers all wear chinos and expensive watches/ear-rings (which underlines the Buy Diazepam England idea that wealth is unifying source of identity, but only when Buy Diazepam England it is not overtly displayed); the widespread use of speaker ‘biographies’ (which also stress the Buy Diazepam England common educational, quasi-kinship bonds that link the group), or the use of ‘on-the-record’, or ‘off-the-record’ conventions for journalists, (which reinforce the Buy Diazepam England assumption that bankers have a right to control information flow to Buy Diazepam England the outside world.)

However, the Buy Diazepam England other feature which makes investment banking conferences oddly similar to marriage rituals is Buy Diazepam England that they are also one of the few occasions when ‘outsiders’ have Buy Diazepam England a chance to slip into the banking world, and properly observe the Buy Diazepam England interactions of the group, and the way that they discuss and Buy Diazepam England display themselves. This is not always possible: just as some weddings might be Buy Diazepam England limited to a tiny group of invited guests, some conferences will tightly control the Buy Diazepam England members, and ban outsiders, such as the media. Yet, the Buy Diazepam England bar to entry can often be overcome, since investment banking conferences are Buy Diazepam England so big, and bankers are meeting away from their own, private space in the Buy Diazepam England office or trading floor. So I, for one, plan to Buy Diazepam England keep attending as many of these events as possible – only this Buy Diazepam England year, in a symbolic nod too the new mood of austerity, the Buy Diazepam England conferences are no longer being staged in holiday resorts such as Barcelona, Cannes, Boca Raton or Buy Diazepam England Las Vegas (which used to be hot destinations of choice), but instead in the more humdrum, ’serious’ locations of Washington, or Edgware Road, London.

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