Write-Offs: 08.08.08

Posted by Bess Levin, Aug 08, 2008, 4:35pm

$$$ 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]

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Posted by guest, Aug 08, 2008 11:55PM

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

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Posted by guest, Aug 09, 2008 9:30AM

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

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Posted by guest, Aug 09, 2008 12:54PM

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.

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Posted by guest, Aug 09, 2008 11:54PM

Asbestos? From his youth?

btw, i launched a contest
http://tfpoi.com/2008/08/09/falling_oil_prediction/

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Posted by guest, Aug 10, 2008 8:46PM

Aug 10 - Mike from Lehman, it's Tara - w4m - (Midtown East)

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mis/790890155.html

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Posted by guest, Aug 10, 2008 10:15PM

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.

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Posted by guest, Aug 11, 2008 12:23AM

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

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Posted by Finnegan, Aug 11, 2008 2:33AM

4x100... a smashing second place finish by France, who have lifted the art of trash talking to the impossibly theoretical.

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Posted by CNote, Aug 11, 2008 8:49AM

@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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