Profits from Sex, Drugs and Booze?

Om Malik, Friday, December 27, 2002 at 11:12 AM PT Comments (0)

Well apparently my former colleague at Forbes, Caroline Waxler, now a freelance journalist thinks so. She has recently been writing for the New York Post and according to Keith Kelly of the NY daily she has sold a book to John Wiley & Sons based on her November story in Worth about investing in sex-related stocks. “Waxler’s book, “Stocking up on Sin: How to Crush the Market with Vice-based Investing,” will focus on how to make lots of cash through socially irresponsible investing in things like booze, drugs, weapons, gambling and prostitution,” Kelly reports.

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