Can an MBA program geared towards NFL athletes—a staggeringly high amount who become insolvent within 10 years of retirement (more than 50 percent according to one report)—help them hold onto their money?

My friend Elizabeth recently told me that she had found a really cheap subscription to Vogue, and that she was really looking forward to the September issue, which is basically a giant door stopper of a fashion issue. Other fashion magazines have similarly thick issues in September. I don’t have a subscription to Vogue, but I do have one for GQ, and I usually skip the fashion layouts to read their features, which are actually very good (i.e. this piece, and, duh, this one).

The reason why I skip the fashion spreads is because they usually feature clothing with price tags in the thousands of dollars, and I don’t really want to temp myself by looking at pieces of clothing I can’t afford. But then one day, I befriended a fashion buyer at Barneys, and I asked what the deal was with the expensive clothing in the fashion magazines. Don’t people in fashion know that most people don’t have $1,000 to drop on one sweater?

This story about Buzz Bissinger's shopping addiction in GQ is totally crazy and surprisingly frank, and is a fun thing to read during lunch today while we're all eating our sad sandwiches and bag of baby carrots.

GQ correspondent Jon Ronson interviewed five people from different income levels, ranging from a dishwasher living off $200 a week to a billionaire living off $625,000 a week, and the vignettes he provides of these people's lives are fascinating.

I have a diverse circle of friends—some are homebodies saving up money to take weeklong trips around the world every couple of months, some prefer concerts over readings (or vice versa), dive bars over lounges, restaurants over pretty much anything else, and then there are the club-goers—the one who love dancing while Mark or Samantha Ronson do their thing, can stay out all night, and drop hundreds or thousands of dollars within a span of a few hours, or convince people (usually men) to drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on them, which is easy to do if you're looking for "bottle service."