Some fat cats are bad, but other fat cats are good.
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Bouts of public anger about fat cats are nothing new.
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But do you want to find fat cats near you?
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It's a different world ... When Obama was slamming the banks, the fat cats, it wasn't like they were down there saying, hey, President Obama, listen, we're not fat cats ... These things actually seem like negotiations.
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Health mischief managed The proverbial fat cats need a different name.
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This way fat cats can make more money in their pocket.
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A lot of people think that all brokers are fat cats.
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He has taken swipes at projects which he identifies with fat cats.
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The thought being, let the fat cats pay for burgeoning college costs.
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Now the fat cats and plutocrats have Warren squarely in their sights.
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He smeared Wall Street "fat cats" time after time on the trail.
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Even if it does, Canada's fat cats are less reviled than those elsewhere.
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Bashing the fat cats is far more satisfying than engaging in serious reform.
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"The fat cats keep the money and us lot get nothing," Cathy said.
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One of the fat cats turned around, red-faced, and grabbed his arm.
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The 'fat cats' Sarvesh and I are near a local tea-vendor, a chaiwallah.
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And what of the fat cats leading FTSE firms and the plutocrats in Parliament?
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There were thin cats and fat cats, cats in Lycra and cats in fake fur.
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Nowadays, the fat cats turned out, anyone in three counties with a taste for wagering.
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Small wonder that so many are former film and sports stars, gangsters, fat cats or dynasts.
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Motherboard asked Ross what it is about fat cats that is just so god damn endearing.
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This movement of "fat cats" and "heavy-hitters" not writing checks might change the politicians' behavior.
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Would your girlfriend really, truly want to move your lovable but needy, fat cats into their apartment?
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The real problem with Britain is not an excess of fat cats but a shortage of cream.
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We talked to Bree McKenna about fat cats, tackling feminism in music, and the existence of aliens.
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Because they're full of secrets: the shit that Wall Street Fat Cats don't want us to know.
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On Friday, they jumped on Trump's orders, accusing him of giving gifts to Wall Street fat cats.
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There must've been a lot of pressure on them from the big fat cats with all the money.
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Plan B: SmartYacht A prepaid card gets fat cats lifts within 125 miles of Manhattan with two days' notice.
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So the retail fat cats in Mexico are understandably unimpressed and uninterested by a digital channel that continuous disappoints.
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Opponents see them as a way for corporate fat cats to sue elected governments for things they don't like.
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" In fact, Eisen says Manning should bleed the fat cats dry ... 'cause if he cashes out, "I get half!
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Business lingo is packed with terms borrowed from the animal kingdom—bull markets, bear raids, fat cats, and more.
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Rapid growth in executive pay has long drawn criticism from some politicians and media headlines denouncing corporate "fat cats".
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And German unions have become far too chummy with German industry and corporate fat cats, goes the broader narrative.
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Led by Sir Stuart Strange (the great Jonathan Pryce), these fat cats give us the Wikipedia version of James' past.
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Contributing Opinion Writer You could always slight the very rich by calling them moneybags, robber barons, fat cats or plutocrats.
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My sister calls to see if I want to go to Fat Cats for dancing lessons, but I don't want to.
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They were certainly influential between 1998 and 2005, when the chancellor was Gerhard Schröder, nicknamed Genosse der Bosse ("fat cats' comrade").
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That's ok for big business fat cats but it's not good for British families,' said Vote Leave Chief Executive Matthew Elliott.
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The sudden and brutal "demonetisation" of the economy in 2016 was meant to target fat cats, but ended up hurting everybody.
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And Democrats have been hungry for prosecutions of those who they consider to be the corrupt fat cats of corporate America.
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Not everyone in Russia's Finance Ministry is keen to "spend money on saving fat cats", a source in the ministry said.
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His fashion sense, about which he is outspoken and fastidious, seems ripped from Gilded Age cartoons about predatory industrial fat cats.
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Plan B: Blade Bounce, Sikorsky Shares A prepaid card gets fat cats lifts within 125 miles of Manhattan with two days' notice.
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The problem is, such tough sanctions might hurt ordinary folk more than the fat cats in charge, who control access to dollars.
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During his presidency, Obama referred to some bankers as "fat cats" and slammed their "irresponsible actions" that led to the Great Recession.
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God rest ye merry, fat cats: Shedding some of that cumbersome, excess cash is a surefire route to feeling good about yourself.
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One obvious difference, of course, is that those Stakhanovite posters had an anticapitalist bent, criticizing the fat cats profiting from free enterprise.
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I mean, there's a good feeling about it, that I fucking went toe to toe with these fucking fat cats at record labels.
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Newsrooms in cities across the country have been decimated by draconian cuts, while fat cats load up newspapers with debt and profit handsomely.
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He shook hands with the fat cats in the front row, the director and his wife, and then sat down, smug and sure.
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"This is an institution that had a 1 percent pay raise this year, so it's not like we're fat cats," Ms. Kiss said.
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That led to a period of populist ferment hostile to fat cats, including mass strikes and ultimately the New Deal of the 1930s.
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Obama, known for populist pitches of his own and criticism of Wall Street "fat cats," came into office during the global financial crisis.
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Many of Hong Kong's fat cats would surely resent giving up their weekends there to help the very people who are out making trouble.
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But few bonds run deeper than shared association in this most exclusive club of American fat cats, the 19823 magnates who own N.F.L. franchises.
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Those cuts were embraced by Nobel Prize winners and represented an entire social vision, favoring the dispersed entrepreneurs over the concentrated corporate fat cats.
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Until the late 19th century, fatness had been positively associated with luxury available only to a wealthy few (mostly male) "fat cats" and leisured ladies.
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Touring pro-Leave events during the referendum campaign, Bagehot heard again and again that the cards were stacked in favour of fat cats and foreigners.
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Under FIFA's newly transparent voting system, the football associations of more than 200 countries, rather than a committee of FIFA fat cats, had a vote.
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And, by the way, the GoFundMe wants to target not only the politicians and the telecom fat cats, but also their families (check the fine print).
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The startup that does this is called Scriptbook and it automatically reads and scores scripts, offering Hollywood fat cats the ability to choose winners over flops.
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In Maine we had my favorite— a slice of blueberry pie from Two Fat Cats Bakery that I still go back for whenever I'm in Portland.
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This is not the 2008 Financial Crisis, where millions of people are thrown out of their homes due to the chicanery of Wall Street fat cats.
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Outside the meeting, protestors including two individuals dressed as "fat cats" in suits and bowler hats voiced their criticism of senior executive pay at the bank.
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I don't care that my new life revolves around a holey old couch, a grumpy old man, a couple of fat cats and a bearded dragon.
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"Now EU Fat Cats Want to Ban Our Weed Killer," read a headline in April in the Daily Express, a British tabloid that supported the Brexit campaign.
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We need to do both, even if — especially if — it strikes fear into the heart of the fossil fuel fat cats who drilled us into this mess.
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No one was clamoring for a new "centrist" third-party, least of all one suspiciously beholden to the same kinds of fat cats dominating the two major parties.
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" The 30-second ad, titled "System," starts by describing eminent domain as a "fancy term for politicians seizing private property to enrich the fat cats who bankroll them.
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Unfortunately, an organization called the Electronic Payments Coalition is spending big bucks to repeal these protections and put billions more in the pockets of Wall Street fat cats.
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And while Cash isn't a hardened hustler like the narrator of "Fat Cats," he's not above exaggerating, lying, or even faking his credentials to get some sort of advantage.
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Governments have murdered, stolen property, discriminated, and selfishly put themselves over and above the needs of their people on a scale even the vilest of corporate fat cats couldn't imagine.
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Criticism of "Fat Cats" goes back decades but last June's EU referendum exposed a deep divide between those at the top of corporate and political life, and the wider public.
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A conservative Supreme Court, however, most assuredly would endorse criminal decisions like Citizens' United that in effect help perpetuate a rigged system which enriches fat cats and penalizes the people.
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Who is to say that an elderly Dr. King would not have been outside the stadium with a bullhorn, goading the smug fat cats of Atlanta about housing and jobs?
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Certainly it's a quality we're craving from our political leaders, and so maybe the wasp-waisted look is on some level oppositional, a subtle jab at the conservative fat cats.
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Why should voters trust any of the fat cats in Washington telling voters that their hearts are pure, that they didn't promise the big banks anything in those $200,000 speeches?
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"Expanding subsidies for high earners, and cutting health coverage off from the working poor: it sounds like a left-wing caricature of mustache-twirling, top-hatted Republican fat cats," he writes.
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Many of the privately owned life insurers are in reality the cash machines of various top families and their so-called majority shareholders are only front men for the fat cats.
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Despite a stream of articles about "public-sector fat cats", public servants in the top earnings decile have seen their salaries fall by about 2% since 2011, the most of any.
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Often those are fat-cats or families who lack experience and underestimate the costs, which can stretch as high as $350,000 per room, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, a property group.
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He referred to several concurrent phenomena: unchecked power overseeing a "warped reform," entrenched interest groups and fat cats bent on preserving the status quo, and a general unravelling of social trust.
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In the 1920s, steely capitalists worried that such indolent fat cats would undermine entrepreneurship while fiery radicals ridiculed their only work as picking up a ticket at the opera box office.
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What's more, online donations from small-dollar donors are now, in some ways, worth more than the maximum contributions (which are $2,800 for the 2020 election cycle) from the fat cats.
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And to keep things interesting, they make a bet: whoever can extract $500,000 from a sheepish tech millionaire Thomas (Alex Sharpe) gets to stay in town and keep milking the fat cats.
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But Trump and Sanders have both successfully made these deals emotionally charged issues, conjuring up images of millions of unemployed Americans suffering at the hands of Wall Street-controlled Washington fat cats.
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In an election where insurgent outsiders like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump ran against Wall Street fat cats and the Washington establishment, respectively, these Clinton revelations could indeed be a game changer.
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Good management might sound like tame stuff compared with promising to punish the fat cats, as Mr Corbyn does, or sailing off into the great blue yonder, as the Brexiteers would wish.
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The brothers hatch a plan to get back at the fat cats (and also solve a few of their cash flow problems) by stealing the money flowing through the same NASCAR speedway.
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By not eliminating this tax break, Republicans have opened themselves to Democratic talking points that kill them every time: Conservatives are nothing more than shills for Wall Street and corporate fat-cats.
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Corporate fat cats – some of them now funding our own elected officials like Gillibrand, who took money from the pot industry just last year – see marijuana as their opportunity to cash in.
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There are notable exceptions, especially during his first year or two in office when he called CEOs who fly on private jets "fat cats" and decried business that held conventions in Las Vegas.
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That our nation's top journalists and news executives want to hob-nob with the powerful politicians, corporate fat cats and entertainers who should be the subjects of news coverage is the real mistake.
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Some cynics are quick to dismiss the entire concept as a "brilliant marketing brainstorm" from record industry fat cats hoping to ramp up streams and potentially get consumers to part with their cash.
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Like nationally, Mr Schulz toured around giving rousing and well-executed speeches railing against fat cats, telling affecting anecdotes about the tough lot of the little man and promising to make welfare more generous.
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This isn't Westeros; no one's out here massing troops on opposite sides of a meadow, while the fat cats in the biggest tent play an oversized game of Risk and tend to their carbuncles.
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He talks of ending some of Mr Mugabe's woeful policies, such as the law requiring all companies above a certain size to be majority-owned by black Zimbabweans (in practice, ruling-party fat cats).
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In Truth's analysis, the enemy that mattered to young people wasn't lung cancer, it was fat cats in a distant office who cared only for personal gain and didn't give a rip about them.
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It is not remarkable to hear a Democratic candidate go into populist mode while on the campaign trail, to rail against corporate fat cats and blame their greed for the problems facing blue-collar workers.
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During his time in office the former president's relations with Wall Street often appeared strained — particularly in 2009, when he called bankers "fat cats" who kept drawing big bonuses while America went through a deep recession.
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The new "tax reform" law championed by the president and his party will cut taxes for bankers and billionaires and fat cats and plutocrats but leave the middle-class voters who supported Trump high and dry.
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Now, only months after he's left the White House, Obama is set to receive $400,000 from those very same fat cats for a one-hour speech at a conference put on by the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
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While no one escapes the movie's fondly mocking tone, Buñuel takes particular pleasure in deriding officious bureaucrats, complaining fat cats, corrupt officials, and, at once point, a gringa (North American) tourist who vents her anti-Communism in English.
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Then in 2016, the fat cats at America's private equity firms and hedge funds gave $48 million to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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It could be a tough sell for the president as he fights with saturation coverage of Hurricane Harvey and as Democrats prepare to frame Trump's approach as a giveaway to corporate fat cats and the nation's richest taxpayers.
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Today is National Coloring Book Day (at least according to the publisher who deemed it so), but unfortunately for the fat cats of Big Coloring Book (that's a thing, right?), things are not looking good for the industry.
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But we were watching, all of us, and he&aposs the most I think pro-life president we&aposve ever had, and defending life, the most innocent among us who have no lobbyists and no fat cats behind them.
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Put simply, for all his unconventionality, Trump still can't break out of the box that Obama and the Clintons have trapped the GOP in for the last eight years: a party of fat cats that leaves the little guy behind.
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"Amid severe problems in the economy, Russian oil companies could be seen as fat cats" and there is no need to keep giving them tax relief on fields, said one official, who is not associated with the ministry of finance.
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" Introducing a victorious Moore on Tuesday night, Bannon heralded a "revolution" spearheaded by populists who "do not have to raise money from the elites, the crony capitalists, from the fat cats in Washington, D.C., New York City and Silicon Valley.
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Some rattle piggy banks to show that their party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), relies on, and serves, the little guy—as opposed to the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), backed by businesses and fat cats and one of the world's richest political institutions.
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Oscar Tang, a Chinese-American billionaire and philanthropist, tells of another banquet for fat cats in Beijing, this one hosted earlier this month by Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, and the C100, a group of prominent Chinese-Americans.
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" DCLeaks claimed that it had been "launched by the American hacktivists"—people who were concerned that "the authorities are just lobbying interests of Wall Street fat cats, industrial barons and multinational corporations' representatives who swallow up all resources and subjugate all markets.
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On Wednesday night, shortly after the gallerist Mary Boone traded in the Hermès for prison garb, fat cats from what is often described as the world's biggest unregulated market besides guns and drugs traipsed into Christie's for its postwar art evening sale.
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Warren's former team members, for their part, also had acidic criticism for both the former president and members of his team: "Obama called the bankers fat cats once and spent seven years feeling bad about it," one former Warren aide told Politico.
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For "Fat Cats, Bigga Fish," from 1994, he assumed the voice of a pickpocket who, posing as a waiter to hunt wealthy marks at an Oakland gala, overhears a developer pitch the mayor on a conspiracy to turn low-income housing into condos.
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That's really what it is, is just the idea that a lot of startups, to undercut and disrupt the industry they're in, will just describe the industry that they exist in as full of fat cats just making money off of people who don't know any better.
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It was March 2015, and Bharara had long before made a name for himself prosecuting Wall Street fat cats for insider trading while serving as the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, generally regarded as among the most powerful law enforcement jobs in the country.
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Proximity. For 40 years, this island off the coast of France with a population of only 95,553 has been a commutable exile for a range of fat cats who want to be able to fly their business colleagues over for weekly meetings on this tax exile Fortress Of Solitude.
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It's not the kind of heist flick in which the protagonists want to show up the fat cats, to embarrass people who think they're smart; instead, it's one where the would-be thieves have to pull off the job because it's the only way they'll have a future.
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One is a campaign of bread and circuses — tweets, rallies, bombast about random issues of the moment, all meant to distract and excite — and the other is the constant assemblage of a cabinet full of fat cats and "mad dog" generals, a virtual aviary of vultures and hawks.
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"There is a real potential for our responses in a changing climate to make the fat cats fatter, so to speak, and to be to the detriment of our marginalized frontline communities," says Katharine Mach, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami and coauthor on the study published today in the journal Science Advances.
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One thinks of the influence of work wear on recent collections by Demna Gvasalia at his own label, Vetements, and also Balenciaga; by Junya Watanabe in his North Face work, with Carhartt jackets slashed up, turned inside out and resewn; and of Kim Jones, the gifted men's wear designer at Louis Vuitton, who nudged Wall Street fat cats into boiler suits.
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Knowing this, Miuccia Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, Prada's chief executive, sent invitations weeks ago to what was characterized as a small private dinner, to be held at the couple's foundation on Milan's perimeter, and then mobilized the forces of their multibillion-dollar fashion empire to populate that dinner with the most prominent citizens of town: fat cats, plutocrats, high-level bureaucrats and, of course, the aristocrats whose family names grace streets and buildings throughout this ancient capital of the north.
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But so, for instance, we have a song called "Fat Cats and Bigga Fish," which is a song about a pickpocket who is conning and stuff and ends up switching clothes with his cousin who's a waiter at a high-society party, and they think they look alike, so they switch clothes, and he goes in there and he's pickpocketing, and while he's pickpocketing, he overhears the mayor of Oakland talking to the person that owns Coca Cola bottling about a plan for gentrification.
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