"As your bank or hedge fund slides toward insolvency, just carry on barking at your secretary, snubbing waitresses, and blanking old friends who nod at you in the elevator. Everyone will assume you are still loaded -- and will hold off pulling the plug on you for a few more days at least."

I was starting to critically pull apart the article too, but when I read the quoted paragraph I started to laugh and realised my leg was being pulled.