Payback for Bezos Has No Limit

This post originally appeared in Money Stuff.

My usual role around here is to tell you about interesting financial things that have happened, or to argue that boring financial things that have happened are actually interesting, or at least to make fun of dumb financial things that have happened. Occasionally though, we indulge in a bit of speculative fiction and talk about how nice it would be if some really interesting financial thing had happened, even though it didn’t. Here is a Vanity Fair story about Jeff Bezos, an extramarital affair, nude selfies, politics, the National Enquirer, etc., but I just want to focus on this amazing passage about what might have been: