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Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash
Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism.
The print edition of the piece is immediately preceded by a fashion spread for “TOM FORD Halter-neck Jumpsuit and Black Stamped Croc Bar Belt, at tomford.com ” A similar item, U0269-FAX1105, on the site bears the price tag $5,790, which is capitalism’s surest signal as to who it thinks is reading a publication. I checked them the morning of a presentation on this investigation, and they were “The high stakes of the group family vacation”, “George Clooney didn’t appreciate Biden criticizing his wife”, “The film exec distracted by her crushes at Cannes”, and “Madam Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the week of June 9-15. And, as someone who listened attentively at the dinner table and on car rides as he geeked out with his eldest son about the relative merits of various corners in Chicago, when I read that there was a bank branch in New York City with thick glass on the second floor, I thought “If that unicorn exists, I can probably narrow it down to a single physical location.”
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