• 08 Aug 2008 at 4:35 PM

Write-Offs: 08.08.08

By Bess Levin

$$$ Confessions of a risk manager [The Economist]
$$$ Melissa Moody’s Ratings Alternative: Citigroup [LoSC]
$$$ Societe Generale Shuts Down U.S. Merger-Arbitrage Trading Group [Bloomberg]
$$$ Boston makes way for its biggest mansion, still fails to out-toilet Greenwich man. [Boston Globe]

Comments (9)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | August 8, 2008 at 11:55 PM

    GREAT article in the economist. i have been in risk management and can totally see things the way he describes them

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | August 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM

    Bernie mac has died
    http://tfpoi.com/2008/08/09/bernie-mac-october-5-1957-august-9-2008/

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | August 9, 2008 at 12:54 PM

    Yes. Bernie Mac has died. He had something called sarcoidosis (or sometimes just sarcoid) which is an inflammatory disease that’s not well understood.
    The incidence of sarcoid greatly increased in the NYC area after 9/11 and many responders are in treatment for it.
    I don’t know enough about Bernie Mac’s life to know how we happened to get it. He was only 50.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | August 9, 2008 at 11:54 PM

    Asbestos? From his youth?
    btw, i launched a contest
    http://tfpoi.com/2008/08/09/falling_oil_prediction/

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | August 10, 2008 at 8:46 PM

    Aug 10 – Mike from Lehman, it’s Tara – w4m – (Midtown East)
    http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mis/790890155.html

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | August 10, 2008 at 10:15 PM

    looks like jay is trying to atone for the fact that he goes to a shitty college by running a shitty finance blog, if you can call it that.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | August 11, 2008 at 12:23 AM

    No, its a good blog, shitty college, i dont know so much if i can argue with (jk)

  8. 8
    Posted by Finnegan | August 11, 2008 at 2:33 AM

    4×100… a smashing second place finish by France, who have lifted the art of trash talking to the impossibly theoretical.

  9. 9
    Posted by CNote | August 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM

    @8 – at least they didn’t surrender 20 meters into the race. That’s a first for them…
    Maybe someone put soap in the water.

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