Not only did the Beard of Understanding land some prime modeling gigs on the success of his Times spread, but he’s reached the penultimate step toward being named Most Popular girl in school (all that’s left to do is blow the editor-in-chief of the year book, who tallies up senior superlative ballots). A new CNBC survey of “Wall Street professionals” shows a waning faith in the economy at large but a waxing faith in he who would sooner say the ‘r’ word than engage in that or any other hair removal process. Thirty-nine “money managers, investment strategists, and professional economists” gave Ben a “B” for his work this month, up from January’s “B-.” It would’ve been an “A-” but Charlie Gasparino’s mechanic said he was “less than impressed” with the Chairman’s work, and failed his Harvard ass.
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I can’t fathom Chuck G. allowing another man to attend to the purrr of his ‘86 Stang. Who is this “mechanic” putting a damper on Ben’s day?
@ Lowly Assistant
You mean his ‘87 IROC Z?
wrong anal_yst, it’s mozilo that drives the IROC.
I have been reading this blog since the Nazi bastards at Credit Suisse canned me (and I got it in the September slaughtering) and I am now in awe of Bess Levin. Has anyone been this funny, this often…intentionally?
God bless Alan Greenspan.
He flooded the economy with cheap money, keeping us from feeling even the slightest twinge of pain.
He cleaned up after us, credit binge after credit binge.
And he spoke an odd dialect of Olde Economics English, now known as Greenspeak. Here’s a sample:
“I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.”
Ah, the master…
The Fed’s new occupant? He says what’s really going on, and people just can’t deal.