The last two currency funds, which were offered by Franklin Templeton, closed in March to new investors after a string of abysmal returns.

FORBES: In The Money

They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts