$$$Because your Ken Lay Lives tighty-whities have seen better days: Lucy Gao boxers. [Cafe Press]
$$$Mecca, as you know it: The Money Shirt. (Settle down, spaz, there’ll be no strokes on our watch). [Clay's Place]
$$$Manic-depressive, pessimist banking loser seeks petite 25-35 year old equally bitter, maladjusted borderline nymph for comiseration, “good” times. And we totally call dibs. (Don’t even act like you’re not just as turned on as we are by this, people). [Craigslist]
Archive for August 2006
We’re awash in photos of the summer classes of London banks. To the left you see Lucy Gao’s fellow Citigroup interns, and after the jump we’ve got the Goldman 2006 summer class. No one, however, has seen fit to send us any group shots of summer interns from out home town of New York City. This is an injustice that will not be tolerated. Only you can set things right by emailing us your photos. (And have no fear—we protect the identity of our sources with even more tenacity than Robert effin Novak.)
Now you can have all your Lucy Gao in one spot. That’s right. Someone’s gone out and started a blog dedicated to our Lucy. It’s mostly stuff you’ve seen around here before but if you’re just joining us for the Gao story, you can catch up on things over there.
Or you can feast yourself on DealBreaker’s own dedicated Lucy Gao archive.
Lucy Gao Blog [Blogspot]
We hope nobody shows the folks all worked up about the alleged naked shorting conspiracy the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp’s recent statement , which we came across over on Gary Weiss’s blog. The anti-naked shorting Don Quixote’s are endlessly entertaining—reading their bulletin boards makes us laugh the same way we laugh when we watch little kids trip over their shoe laces—and it would be a real loss to have them encounter such a decisive debunking of their world view.
More Baloney Debunking [Gary-Weiss.Com]
When we were in college, a competing student paper ran into trouble paying its bills. Our paper, which was notorious for its outlandishly reactionary viewpoint, offered to financially bail out the other if it would modify its editorial policy in certain ways, including supporting a ban on fractional reserve banking and the abolition of the Federal Reserve. These fond memories were brought back this afternoon when we read Peter Cohan’s item speculating that the Fed may be playing politics with interest rates.
Many polls indicate that the Republican party is unpopular and that Democrats are therefore likely to make gains in November. How do interest rates figure into the election in November? With consumer credit card borrowing at near record levels of $2.2 trillion in June and 26.8% of mortgages in adjustable rates, each time the Fed raises rates, it puts the squeeze on millions of voters who are already paying close to $3 a gallon to drive to work.
So if the Fed raises rates, it turns up the anger boil against the party in power. If the Fed can hold off raising rates until after the election, it will take away a bit of potential pain from voters who might be making up their mind about whether to keep incumbents in power. Meanwhile, the 7% increase in labor costs translates into more money in the pockets of these potential voters.
Is election pressure keeping the Fed from controlling inflation? [BloggingStocks]
Leonore Annenberg: Philadelphia Int’l to Savannah Hilton Head Int’l on her Gulfstream V
(This actually getting a little you-can’t-help-but-feel-bad-for-her-in-an- “old-man-can’t-control-his-bodily-fluids-and-therefore-constantly-wets-the-bed-and-we’re-there-to-witness-it” kind of way. This is like the billionth time Leo’s been to Rich Old (Widow’d) Man central this summer, in (what we’re thinking– obviously accurately–is) a vain attempt to land husband #3. At this point, we’re kind of just embarassed for her, but she’s like so freaking old that the embarassment is wrapped up in this sort of guilt-type situation thing– not good for business–, ’cause she’s SO OLD and it’s always sad when old people are pathetic. Unless of course numero tres is already in the bag and LA’s just following him around as a makeshift caddy until his guy gets back from vacation, in which case we say a hearty mazel tov, to you, LeA.)
Denise Rich: Adirondack Regional to Detroit Metro Wayne County on her Learjet 60
(We’re not exactly sure what’s going on yet but we know there’s something. Detroit is like Miami, Florida, kids– you’d don’t go there unless you’re going to die. Unless you’ve got somesort of shifty eyed situation going on with former President Billy C. Then, you go to Detroit. We haven’t had due cause to contact our honorary sorority sister Hillie, just yet, but just wait for it. We’re on to you, D. Rich. Oh, we’re on to you. Dead hookers of the grandest proportions indeed.)
This is going to sound mean so let’s get right down to business. This morning when we linked to the New York Post’s story about Donald Trump firing Carolyn Kepcher, we included an excerpt indicating her age was thirty-six.
And when we re-read it after a few more cups of coffee, we thought, “Woah. She’s been Donald Trump’s assistant forever. How young was she when she started? Could she really be only thirty-six?”
Well, maybe. Our Googling in depth research has uncovered a wikipedia article claiming she was born in 1968. Which would mean she first turned thirty-six in 2004, and has apparently been the same age ever since.
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