What's inside a Wall Street secret society party

A first-person account of an event for the 1%, plus other must-reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
FEB 21, 2014
Each week I read all of the important stories affecting your business and investments. Below is the weekly catch-up, curated just for you: "I crashed a Wall Street secret society party" (New York Magazine) The "Hoover Dam" of solar is now up and running in the California desert. (Giga Om) The rags-to-riches tale of how Jan Koum built WhatsApp into Facebook's new $19 billion baby (Forbes) Silicon Valley pay packages make Wall Street execs look like pikers. And no one says a word. (DealBook) Wait til you see what was found when they raided this Mexican drug lord's palace... (Imgur) Joshua Morgan Brown is a New York City-based wealth manager and financial commentator on CNBC. You can follow his writing at The Reformed Broker blog and his random outbursts on Twitter @reformedbroker.

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