IVIV (1) Golden Fang building in NYC?

[Doug Millison]

There are Preterite and Elite even among the Investment Bankers and  
their clients who manage portfolios for Insurance Companies of Wall  
Street.  I know some of them, in each group.

Still can't get over the fact that Charles Ives the composer and in  
many ways under the spell of the American Transcendentalists even as  
he was creating a modern music that a lot of folks couldn't handle  
back in that day, was also a life insurance pioneer, via good  
intentions, I gleaned from reading biographies: saw life insurance as  
a tool to prevent the families of a working man having to go into debt  
to pay for his funeral.

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> On 8/27/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In any event, there is a building in NYC, you know Pynchon will
>> re-locate stuff from NY to his "California" landscapes) that does  
>> have
>> a golden fang and its made of 22 carrot gold leaf. And that's just
>> what's on the roof. Inside, there are 5 levels underground, including
>> one with its own subway station, and in the 5 underground levels are
>> vaults and computers. Insurance Companies are the Engines of Wall
>> Street. Not Goldman, Not Merril, not BofA, not Citi, but NY Life, Met
>> Life ...so on. The white shoe firms in AtD, yes I know all about the
>> Buish Nazi Banks and Harriman ...blah blah ...are not these  
>> Investment
>> Banks today, the Secret ... is that the Insurance Companies and the
>> Hedge Funds (and Hedge Funds are nothing w/o Insurance Companies
>> because the Insurance Companies are the Leverage--we or our DEATHS  
>> are
>> the Fulcrum), just ask Eliot Spitzer, are the Golden Gangs.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Life_Building
>>
>> http://www.skyscrapersunset.com/skyscrapercity/nyc/040911-02/06.jpg
>>