Last week, the Wall Street titan was arrested and charged with running a massive Ponzi scheme.

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One Wall Street titan, the owner of 15 complicated Patek Philippe wristwatches, recounted to me the time his secretary called while he was traveling abroad to inform him that an armored truck had arrived at the office bearing his latest piece.

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However, investors may have experienced just a smidgen of relief from the recent high anxiety of Wall Street when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam to 11 years in jail for insider trading.

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Stone's 1987 release portrays Chaplin's direct descendant, telling the story of Wall Street in the roaring 1980s and the efforts of one would-be titan's efforts to keep up with the Joneses at a very high level.

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If nothing else, Pachter's take (and he still thinks Facebook is a solid investment) reinforces the inevitable culture clash that occurs when a 27-year-old titan of California's freewheeling startup culture meets the buttoned-down world of Wall Street.

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