Wall Street Eats

A Wall Streeter’s Rock Bottom: Chex Cereal and Cheap Salmon

What's next, dollar pizza?
What’s next, dollar pizza? Photo: STAN HONDA/2007 AFP

In a story about this year’s brutal bonuses, Bloomberg documents how some Wall Streeters are doing almost anything to survive. Like the down-and-out guy who drove all the way to Fairway in Red Hook to buy salmon, on sale for $5.99 a pound, and who looks through coupons for a favorite cereal from prepubescence. [Bloomberg]

A Wall Streeter’s Rock Bottom: Chex Cereal and Cheap Salmon