Attitudes, client behaviour, a dry witty cynicism (I've met Roger Sterling types at least 10 times in my career), Peggy's trajectory, career development – or not – hierarchical behaviour, professional relationships, finance, or scenes like the all-night session to prepare for the breakaway agency – all are almost uncannily spot on.
Last year, at Jessa's surprise wedding to a finance guy, a scene that might have been the climax of an ordinary meet-cute romantic comedy, her cousin Shoshanna blurted out, "Everyone's a stupid whore".
His sale of an inherited Monet snow scene financed his early years as a young barrister married to the great actor Peggy Ashcroft.
(Joe Swanberg's "Digging for Fire," with its pile of receipts to file, and Andrew Bujalski's "Results," about romance and finance behind the scenes of a gym, dramatize these anxieties as well).
With its deep tradition in finance, a burgeoning tech scene, and more than 200,000 small businesses in just 300 square miles, the greatest city in the world is a perfect fit for Square.
Student finances have been the scene of many battles, but the news that maintenance grants for students are to be scrapped is an especially distressing defeat.
Doing away with complex and confusing hospital bills and having them taken over by third-party payers will lead to greatly simplified health care financing and set the scene for significant reductions in the costs that patients and employers and government have to pay.
After intensive negotiations behind the scenes, EU finance ministers agreed to provide €85 billion (about $113 billion) in the form of loans to Ireland—€35 billion (about $47 billion) to help the banks and €50 billion (about $66 billion) to help the government manage spending while cutting its deficit.
A minister in Saxony, Kerstin Ködlitz (also of Die Linke) recently alluded to evidence of cross-financing the right-wing scene with crystal cash there.
The rhetoric in recent months has been one of investment and with a new finance director in place, the scene is set for clearing the decks from a financial point of view.
