What I’m about to offer you via my roommate is more than just the greatest breakup anecdote ever told, it’s a reflection of the collapse of the commoditized-sex carry trade.

“PS I forgot to tell you. In the process of our over-and-out conversation, Jeff did offer up this:
“I really like you a lot, but I just don’t feel like I have anything to offer you right now, with this credit crunch and all…”

It’s share-time. How is the credit crunch/market collapse affecting your sex life/ability to find meaningless intercourse for relatively little (in terms of time, fancy dinners, expensive-looking gifts)? The best story will win five uncorrected proofs of Mergers and Acquisitions or a date with John Carney (on you). Your call.

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Comments (69)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:02 PM

    bess’s roommate– a slut?

  2. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:07 PM

    i’m waiting until marriage to have sex.

  3. Posted by Anonymous2 | November 8, 2007 at 12:11 PM

    I’m waiting until sex to have marriage.

  4. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:14 PM

    that was like a Magic Eye

  5. Posted by 1-2 | November 8, 2007 at 12:17 PM

    I’m waiting until sex for marriage…take that 12:07!

  6. Posted by everyone knows that | November 8, 2007 at 12:20 PM

    please, you don’t have to wine and dine carney to get him to put out.

  7. Posted by Resume Writing Backroomer | November 8, 2007 at 12:22 PM

    Does the “sex” issue have to involve a partner?

  8. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:25 PM

    no, 12:22, now get talking. i’m not doing anything today.

  9. Posted by just me | November 8, 2007 at 12:27 PM

    chicks who have lost their jobs, or are about to, are prowling bars, clubs etc looking for guys who have secure jobs or trust funds. I dont blame them – what chick wants to go back to iowa to marry a corn farmer when she could stay in ny by just sleeping around?

  10. Posted by girl | November 8, 2007 at 12:34 PM

    Just me,
    I think these girls should just go back to iowa now, lock down a good farmer at the least. They end up whoring around until they’re 30 then realizing no decent guy in ny wants to marry them anyway

  11. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:40 PM

    The corn farmers are making more money than the NYC finance types this year.

  12. Posted by L. Craig | November 8, 2007 at 12:46 PM

    Bear Stearns men’s room. 14th Floor. 1:15PM. I’m the one with the brown shoes.

  13. Posted by L. Craig | November 8, 2007 at 12:47 PM

    Come ‘n get some

  14. Posted by Fairfield, Iowa, Chamber of Business | November 8, 2007 at 12:54 PM

    Our town is made up of 50% meditating brokers from New york and 50% farmers.

  15. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 12:56 PM

    Bess – have you thought that maybe your “roommate” is charging too much (at least given market conditions)?

  16. Posted by inIT4the$ | November 8, 2007 at 12:58 PM

    It’s not so much the credit crunch, as the capital allocation away from my group to other areas of the firm (yes I know, b/c of the credit crunch). This puts a damper on my ability to carry inventory for any amount of time. Oh sure I can still cross bonds, but to really be able to screw someone you might have to sit on the position for a couple of days. Point being is, I just don’t like my girlfriend anymore.

  17. Posted by Johnny Lawrence | November 8, 2007 at 1:01 PM

    L. Craig, I’ll send a Goldman trader right over so you can blow him.

  18. Posted by pig famer | November 8, 2007 at 1:08 PM

    I’d rather be in Iowa than New York right now. Do you think this chart is a result of lawnmower sales?
    http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#chart1:symbol=de;range=2y

  19. Posted by Nominate me | November 8, 2007 at 1:26 PM

    Credit crunch? Keep lowering those rates bitches! The cheaper the money, the more I can borrow to fund my mini-baller lifestyle. The hoes love them some leased 911′s.
    Sincerely,
    The entire city of Dallas

  20. Posted by Stranded | November 8, 2007 at 1:28 PM

    I love the comments on this post. I thought I was the only person from Iowa who read DB.
    I know law firm partners and PMs who own farms as a side-source of income. Most of them haven’t even seen the land they own, they just hire out help. Plus, with government bail outs when times are tough, it seems the Iowa farmers have the last laugh after all.

  21. Posted by D-bag | November 8, 2007 at 1:28 PM

    As a result of this credit crunch my relationship with my wife has actually gotten better! I could no longer afford to keep my “chinese-slut” girl friend (her words not mine) so now my wife and I have sex all the time!
    I just wish I was sober enuff to remeber it…

  22. Posted by Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa Farmer | November 8, 2007 at 1:35 PM

    Land with a “corn rating of 80″ is going for about $4,000.00 an acre if you can find any. God Bless them ethanol people!!!!
    IOWA stands for “Idiots Out Walking Around” according to those shitheads over in Nebraska, but we say “It’s Our Way, America!”

  23. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 1:38 PM

    who cares. C is almost at $30 . ze world az we know eet iz ovaaa

  24. Posted by sk8asd123 | November 8, 2007 at 1:38 PM

    The results of my less-than-perfect implementation of the Treynor ratio are inconclusive:(

  25. Posted by Wow | November 8, 2007 at 1:42 PM

    If the quality of posts on this site is any gauge for the caliber of people employed on wall street, then it’s no wonder things are getting bad.
    you are all idiots. please never procreate.

  26. Posted by pig farmer | November 8, 2007 at 1:49 PM

    Also, the State of Iowa would like to thank all the New Yorkers for our lovely farm subsidies. Good luck getting rid of them as long as we’re the first primary!

  27. Posted by serous question | November 8, 2007 at 1:53 PM

    Bess,
    do you consider auto fellatio
    a. homosexuality.
    b. a turn-on.

  28. Posted by HAM'05 | November 8, 2007 at 2:01 PM

    http://www.2girls1cup.com
    banks = 2 girls
    liquidity = contents of one cup

  29. Posted by whore | November 8, 2007 at 2:10 PM

    Hey Wow 1:42,
    Nice critique but please don’t tell us how to do our job, after all we don’t go to where you work and slap the cock out of your mouth now do we?

  30. Posted by L. Craig | November 8, 2007 at 2:23 PM

    Wow 1:42 – I may have an opening on my staff.
    Please plan to meet me in the men’s room at Bear Stearns, 14th floor. 2:45PM.

  31. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 2:35 PM

    ok, so Bess’ roommate’s now ex-boyfriend came up with a pretty creative excuse for dumping the shit out of her. Is that a great story? Who is the idiot here? My sense tells me it’s Bess’ roommate!
    And I want to know whether Bess’ roommate has a job (given the credit crunch et al), and whether SHE has anything (and I mean anything, at least the looks) to contribute to the relationship.
    I bet not. She really has to go back to Iowa and marry a farmer. If she can’t even understand a polite “I don’t want to date you anymore’ and chooses to smear her ex via Bess and Dealbreaker instead, Bess’ roommate really has nothing to do in this town.

  32. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 2:41 PM

    bess’s roommate is from new york

  33. Posted by just me | November 8, 2007 at 2:45 PM

    Midwest girls have always put out on the first date – thats why they’re in demand. I’m gonna put up a post on CL looking for girls from Iowa and see what shows up.

  34. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 2:46 PM

    So what?
    She just got politely dumped.
    End of story.

  35. Posted by J | November 8, 2007 at 2:48 PM

    bess’s roommate is probably just ugly, plain and simple. if she were hot he’d try to keep her around as long as possible.

  36. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 2:52 PM

    i’ve seen bl’s roommate..tall/thin/v. large breasts but i got the feeling she was a loose woman.

  37. Posted by Iowa Banker in Overalls Re: Midwest Girls | November 8, 2007 at 3:00 PM

    Oh!! You mean that if you say, “Put out or get out!”, it’s THE GIRL who’s supposed to “get out”???
    Damn, those were some long walks I made back to Fairfield, too!

  38. Posted by Anal_yst | November 8, 2007 at 3:14 PM

    So now I can have a menage a tois with bess & roomate without the guilt of knowing @ least one of them were cheating?
    Not that I ever felt guity before, butt its good to know just in case.

  39. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 3:15 PM

    Iowa Banker:
    You mean you are A BOY and didn’t put out?

  40. Posted by Anal_yst | November 8, 2007 at 3:24 PM

    So now I can have a menage a tois with bess & roomate without the guilt of knowing @ least one of them were cheating?
    Not that I ever felt guity before, butt its good to know just in case.

  41. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 3:27 PM

    KLW:
    Whether or not you post on Craigslist, it’s just not funny to “offer up” someone’s name and other details identifiable to those close to him.
    Jeff, you should have dumped this bitch much much sooner (I know, I know: breasts et al were in the way).

  42. Posted by just me | November 8, 2007 at 3:45 PM

    I am praying that KLW is a chick and not some guy from C or JPM

  43. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 3:50 PM

    @ KLW: do you do anal?

  44. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 3:55 PM

    klw is bess’s roommate, dumb asses

  45. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 4:00 PM

    @ anon 3:55:
    Noooooooo!!!
    effing genius.

  46. Posted by KLW | November 8, 2007 at 4:01 PM

    Dude, are you retarded? Do you actually think his name is Jeff? And his only identifiable detail is that he does something in the financial sector, which would make him one of hundreds of thousands of people. But it’s exciting to meet one of those people who always believes what they read on the Internet! I didn’t think any of you existed anymore.

  47. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 4:11 PM

    @ KLW:
    do you do anal?
    PS: Are you not Bess’ roommate? Or do you have thousands unidentifiable men passing through your room every month? I am really sorry for Bess!
    @ Bess: Come out of this whorehouse and come live with me. Do you do anal?

  48. Posted by anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 4:27 PM

    isn’t the whole point of dating a banker is to enjoy your life when they’re MIA? so when they’re around, you fuck but when they’re at work for 17 hours straight, that leaves you (and him) free to fuck other people?
    i dont understand why jeff ended it- seemed like a pretty standard new york relationship!

  49. Posted by AJ | November 8, 2007 at 4:31 PM

    Wow, Bess, we really are assholes.

  50. Posted by L. Craig | November 8, 2007 at 4:35 PM

    Will all the men on this site please meet me in the Bear Stearns men’s room on the 14th floor at 5:30PM?
    Thanks.

  51. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 4:39 PM

    AJ– have you seen Bess’s a-hole? It’s very, very nice.

  52. Posted by jimmy c | November 8, 2007 at 4:44 PM

    14th floor men’s room larry? Just to warn you i might be in the stall at the end with some chicks gettin blazed… feel free to stop by

  53. Posted by KLW | November 8, 2007 at 4:48 PM

    I do anal. Have the decency to bring your own lube.

  54. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 5:01 PM

    i have astroglide. if it’s ok with you i won’t use a condom

  55. Posted by KLW | November 8, 2007 at 5:01 PM

    Asshole. Stop it.

  56. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 5:02 PM

    AJ- sorry if that was TMI…i just thought you’d appreciate the intel.

  57. Posted by HAM'05 | November 8, 2007 at 5:05 PM

    http://www.cheatneutral.com
    so all you db’s dont feel bad when cheeting on said wives

  58. Posted by thinking aloud | November 8, 2007 at 5:10 PM

    so…bess’s roommate is a sloot and bess is a good girl educated in the ways of a sloot…skills she could call upon if asked to by the right guy…meaning me.

  59. Posted by Anon | November 8, 2007 at 5:14 PM

    This thread reminds me of my former boss, whose love life was driven by the price of gasoline. When below its 100d MA, he’d happly date people on the fringes of the tri-state area; but whenever it broke to the upside, he’d dump them pronto and find someone close to home.

  60. Posted by Nominate me | November 8, 2007 at 5:21 PM

    Between the reachaound I’ve promised BL’s shemale roommate and the trifecta Anal_yst and I are pulling on the STD that is Kim Kardashian, I think I had better book my ticket to NYC.
    This trip is gonna be tight!

  61. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 5:26 PM

    in light of what klw just shared, i’ll take bess.

  62. Posted by InsureTHIS | November 8, 2007 at 8:59 PM

    Someone needs to take a bow here, I am cracking up. Way better product than anything else anyone on this site spent the day making. As if there’s work to be done nowadays…

  63. Posted by Anonymous | November 8, 2007 at 9:52 PM

    Life is just great when all my models start putting on wider spread positions! I love this credit crunch!

  64. Posted by C. Norris | November 8, 2007 at 11:19 PM

    I eat credit crunch for breakfast and poop liquidity in the afternoon.

  65. Posted by Anal_yst | November 9, 2007 at 12:04 AM

    @ nominate me, KLW, etc:
    Ok, KLW, how about Nominate Me, myself, Kardashian all just go at it this weekend. I’ll supply about a gallon of KY (which everyone knows is far superior to that astroglide crap), I assume Kim will be supplying the VD, so KLW/Nominate Me, you two decide who’s bringing the drugs and alcohol.
    Unfortunately for L. Craig, we will not be meating up anywhere near 383 madison.
    Although I do have a friend who banged out a slut up in one of the higher-floor conference rooms…

  66. Posted by Anonymous | November 9, 2007 at 10:00 AM

    inappropriate

  67. Posted by Anal_yst | November 9, 2007 at 10:12 AM

    Surfin the crimson wave or am I completely missing the meaning of blood wings?
    Either way I’m down for whatever, bring it

  68. Posted by slimjim | November 9, 2007 at 10:34 AM

    i would like to give Anal_yst a gorilla mask. 2 guys 1 rag.

  69. Posted by Jeff | November 9, 2007 at 12:24 PM

    Blood Wings.. I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear that..

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