I almost didn’t answer the phone when DealBreaker came calling. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was sitting in a bar somewhere in Brooklyn. The phone was sitting on the bar next to a pack of smokes and a pint of Six Point. A glass of whiskey was in my hand. The phone buzzed, shimmying on the bar a bit. The girl I was drinking with gave me that look girls give you when you consider answering your phone in the middle of a conversation with them. That’s probably why I answered it.
It was Elizabeth Spiers. She asked if I would be interested in writing for her new financial website. I wasn’t working at all in those days, unless you count pretending to freelance and writing pieces of a novel once a week as working. I told her yes. When did she want me to start? Monday. And so the next day I became an ink-stained wretch, reporting the follies and foibles of Wall Street.
We’ve come a long way. In those early days–two and half years ago–the excesses bred by wealth and entitlement provided fodder for my writing. There was this government sponsored mortgage company that should have been delisted but got the New York Stock Exchange to bend the rules for it. Some kids engaged in the zaniest insider trading scheme ever. Another kid made a video about himself, proclaiming “Impossible Is Nothing.” Steve Schwarzman threw himself a birthday party that would have made the Marie Antoinette blush. It was heady times but we knew, even then, that the end was coming.
Lately we’ve spent our time covering the collapse, the fall of the titans. Now Wall Street is busy shoring up its ruins, plotting the rebuild its empire. In the course of my two and a half years at DealBreaker I’ve watched the masters of the universe become welfare queens, tin cup in hand, begging for protection and subsidies from the government. Millionaires and billionaires who want taxpayers to rescue them from market processes. And it looks like we’re going to do it.
Today is my last day at DealBreaker. I leave you in the capable hands of Bess Levin, my writing companion for the past 130 weeks or so, while I move on to other forums. Equity Private and a special surprise writer will be around to help out. You’ve been the best readers a writer could hope for. Thank you for your tips, your comments and for reading. Thanks, really, for going along with me all this way.
For those of you still on Wall Street or wondering what to do next, I’ll offer a four pieces of advice. Remember that we’ll get through this mess we’re in, and we’ll have great stories to tell about it for the rest of our lives. Never work in a job that makes you miserable. Love your family, help your friends. Buy drinks for strangers.
There’s the closing bell. My work here is done.
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fuck u Carney.
in before the lock
Thanks, Carney.
Well said Carney! Wish you the best!
blood in, blood out
Typical douchebag hipster scene from williamsburgh
Thanks John, you’re the man – best of luck in whatever you do.
Best of luck Carney. I wouldnt expect anything less than a typo in the header of your final post.
i actually feel sad.
Sad to see you go.
A guest post now and then perhaps?
Best of luck to you John and thank you.
SPODE
Class act, Carney. Good words.
Is Equity Private on board for the long haul, or just temporarily filling the void?
Thanks John….best of luck
Too long. Next time make it snappy, bro.
best of luck!!
Best of luck Carney, you’ll be sorely missed. Do consider #9′s suggestion. Thanks for everything.
What a douche. Hey buddy — you were writing for a financial blog, not O Magazine. I feel like I just read the book jacket to some cheesedick romance novel. You’re no better than the power tool investment bankers you ridiculed every day. I know that on your last day you feel the need to justify your existence, but get a grip on yourself.
Can you kick Equity Private in the twig and berries on the way out the door? If I were you, i would get Bess nice and tanked and give her a proper rodgering at the going away party. Best of luck you jackknob
thanks brosuf. take it deep.
Thanks Carney, really enjoyed your work the past two years.
#16 you are an ingrate.
Good luck my man…I’ll be keeping an eye on your new posts
Thanks for everything John.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5TTvBVp6lQ
This is all good, but where the f@ck is Mordy at? I’m trying to hear about Wharton…
Carney,
Thanks for all of your posts. You’ve been both entertaining and informative. You’ve helped me get through my day as a coding monkey for Big Law’s doc review project. Thanks man. Stop by Whiskey River @ 2nd Ave and 31st tonight. They got some great single malt scotches and a great selection of beers.
good luck my man, see you on the other side
So long and thanks for all the fish.
@16, f-ck off. thanks and enjoy your weekend.
Carney, great job with DB. Looking forward to reading your next gig.
@16
I’ve never read a romance novel.
Mr. Carney…
I’ve enjoyed your work. Best wishes to you.
DB clown posters…
Don’t worry. TGFD is not the “special surprise writer” Carney mentioned in his closing piece.
Bess hasn’t asked me yet.
The Guy from Delaware
Couldn’t have it said it any better #15
What’s the first year associate at Dealbreaker pay?
Where can I buy gold bullion in the Financial District?
JC, best of luck.
No matter what anyone says you’ll be missed. Those of us that enjoyed your posts will truly miss them while the others will miss not having you to kick around. See, EVERYONE here will miss you
Good luck and really enjoyed your work. And let us know if you ever finish that novel..
Too long, didn’t read.
Good luck and really enjoyed your work. And let us know if you ever finish that novel ;)
Hey Bess,
How about I make like the fed and give YOU a liquidity injection
-HEDGEmony
Thanks JC- all the best to you in your new endeavor! I wish you and everyone else out there a marvelous weekend. Certainly after a week like this, it is earned and well deserved.
Good luck and really enjoyed your work. And let us know if you ever finish that novel ;)
JC, best of luck.
No matter what anyone says you’ll be missed. Those of us that enjoyed your posts will truly miss them while the others will miss not having you to kick around. See, EVERYONE here will miss you
Late JC. Grab yourself a jar of mayo, a sham-WOW and a 6 pack of MHL on your way out.
so long, and thanks for all the crabhands
carney, great close, good work you’ll be missed. Now Bess assumes the position we all knew she had here anyway as feudal lord.
Cheers.
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good luck John!
Carney – you should make the setting in which you received the DB offer a bit more believeable. Start with subtracting the “with a girl” bit; we all know you don’t know any girls. By the way, where’s your friend’s absinthe bar located? Any good? Just realized it was legalized in NYC recently.
Thnx for the posts over the years and best luck …
Agree you should stop by for guest posts every once and a while.
Well said and best of luck.
John,
Second try on this post.
Best of luck John. Your insight and timeliness has been awesome. You saved my but, not Blmg, WSJ, FT etc…
Wish you all the best, and will follow you to your new blog.
cheers
@John Carney
Thank you. You will be missed.
John,
Third try on this post.
Best of luck John. Your insight and timeliness has been awesome. You saved my but, not WSJ, FT etc…
Wish you all the best, and will follow you to your new blog.
cheers
Well said and best of luck.
Aw shucks Carney, shame your best written post had to be your last :)
Carney, best of luck. Thanks especially for last weekend. You will be missed.
Good luck Carney… before you go… have you heard anything about Associate numbers?
John, best wishes and is your passive gay lover moving too?
As a certified typomaker, I liked the old headline better.
Carney gone? I guess that means posts involving porn, drug use, fashion, and other vital components of a Wall Street discussion are about to go up by 30%.
i’m still sad.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/chitlinpita/rs20080918.jpg
@60–sorry to break it to you, but they’re replacing him with another “serious stories” writer.
Always enjoyed your insights Carney and I look forward to following you on the new more “mature” sight. That being said, you know you’ll launch that with a bang if you post a few photos of the former dealbreaker family.
Seriously, you have done some great work here for which I am grateful. Good luck.
John:
Good luck – I’ve enjoyed your work the last couple of years.
AB
I’m callin’ this sh*t: the “special surprise writer” is Anal_yst (1-2 Knockout).
You heard it here first.
Carney, have fun in your new gig. And best of luck!
Single tear.
Good man Carney. Best of luck
Love you Carney, all the best. DB will miss you
You rock Carney, but if you’re replaced by Mordechai Chang I’m going to upper deck your toilet.
The new “special surprise” writer’s going to be Anal_yst of 1-2 Knockout. Watch and see.
@payitforward/71– wrong-o.
Thanks for having a blog I actually enjoyed reading and refreshing. I am torn between wishing you the best of luck and wishing your new place sucks and you want to come back here. Enjoy the new gig and make sure to tell Henry you won’t work with Jack Grubman.
The new mystery writer will be Aleksey Vayner.
Thanks, Carney. you went out of with a bang.
You can’t short Carney.
“Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last shot…..”
Carl Spackler
At least you kept a typo in para 3 for olde tymes sayke. Carney, you did a great job here and we enjoyed your work immensely. Very well done for a douchey literary-type who isn’t even Jewish, and we all look forward to reading your posts on that other loser’s website. But if you try to poach Bess (in the job/competitive sort of way) I swear I will go all Dimon on your pansy ass.
Also, please don’t let Mordy be that “special guest”. Sham-wow!
the market rallied cause carney left
Good night and good luck Carney. You were awesome and you def will be missed, despite what some of these clowns say.
Hey John, great reporting – your posts will be missed. Where are you off to now? Why leave now when the financial markets need your reporting more than ever?
John,
Thanks for giving us the view on the markets in the way that you did… I look forward to your future words at a different location…
Best Regards,
~SEG
The new special writer is going to be 1-2
All the best Carney. I have never commented here before. Appreciate the work!
There will be more financial crises and I will look forward to your reporting and opinions.
Enjoy the new high[er]-paying gig, Carney. Ironically, some of your best work came in your last days here (not counting the spellbinding rice stories).
Cheers to going out on top while the people you write about are at the very bottom!
P.S. @84, my hunch as well!
Carney, you are a real talent and I am sorry to see you go.
Best of luck to you.
…it’s not 1-2.
– in.the.know
Keith Hahn?
Here’s to hoping that the special guest is none other than Liz Spiers. And here’s to hoping its not Timmay Sykes, cause I could totally see you guys pulling that BS.
BTW, good luck in your new gig.
Theory-
Mayo, Shamwow guy was Henry Bloget trying to make this place look like a circus so Carney would want to pull up anchor for a more “mature” harbour.
John- I don’t really know you, but I wish you all the best. I’ve read a bunch of Bloget’s stuff (on slate, and I read his book, Wall Street Survival Guide) and he seems very intellectually honest. In a media world (unfortunately) dominated by C-Gaspar, Lou Dobbs, Jim Cramer and other populist, alarmist meatheads, intellectual honesty is in short supply. My belief is that the two of you will work out well.
Warmly,
Cy
Good luck Carney. I enjoyed reading your work. The flamers bashing you only made it more entertaining.
There is more salad tossing going on in here than in Barney Frank’s bedroom. You people need to get a f*cking life.
Carney — will truly miss you here, dude. Can’t believe you are leaving us in the middle of this shit storm.
You better give us the site of your new gig.
xo, female guest
What’s going to happen to “JO&C” ?
Equity Private doesn’t do it for me. Sounds like an amateur that shops in the old “cadette” section in Sears.
Or like one of those D-List faux cartoons you watched in between Bugs and Flintstones.
JC was an indispensible part of DB’s allure. He always hooked up the peanut gallery with tips he gathered from his network of smarty friends. Does Bess Levin have the hookups? Does she have friends? Equity Private, as cocksure as he is, doesn’t seem all that concerned about passing tips on from one dude to the next. He’s more about the razzle dazzle of his esoteric knowledge. Fuck him. Bess, she can’t help herself, so she’s ok.
But, whoever the new Big Dick is, he/ she/ they (if a tranny) better be generous with the tips and JC-esque enlightening analysis. If not, well then…an empty seat will open up in the peanut gallery.
Im still confused as to where delaware is
john help me out
(silent guest)
thx, you really did a great job in covering up this shit. Good luck :)
Equity Private = I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter.
It’s not, and never will be better.
There’s only one Carney
@96- equity private is a guy. and what does “Bess, she can’t help herself, so she’s ok.” mean?
@95– “JO&C” is bess’s thing.
The king is dead…
long live the Queen
(silent guest)
and your servers suck, now I understand why there are always so many doublepostings.
All the best Carney!
Thanks Carney.
I hope you archived my comment 14 months ago in the July JP Morgan earnings post where I told everyone this collapse was going to happen.
When people reflect on this time and say no one (except John Paulson) saw this coming. Know that one of the first Deal Breaker readers (yes, I was even on the site before it was “live”) told everyone what was to come.
I hope your journeys treat you well and the rest of you bitches quit whining and get back to selling assets. Because in 3 months or so, it’ll be buying time again and I hope we’re all still around to enjoy the after party.
All the best . . . bitches
– Dave Chappelle
Nothing about Equity Private razzle dazzles me and just thinking he even has private parts creeps me out.
Reading his posts is like coming home and finding generic store brand cornflakes in your pantry.
You tell yourself you won’t know the difference and proceed to pour some in a bowl and add milk.
“See? Looks exactly the same”, you (lie) to yourself.
And then you take that first spoonful.
It is inedible. Hopefully you are alone because now you have to decide what to do with that mushy mouthful.
Spit or swallow. Remember, we’re talking Equity Private here.
I take the former. Bring me the spitoon.
Nothing about Equity Private razzle dazzles me and just thinking he even has private parts creeps me out.
Reading his posts is like coming home and finding generic store brand cornflakes in your pantry.
You tell yourself you won’t know the difference and proceed to pour some in a bowl and add milk.
“See? Looks exactly the same”, you (lie) to yourself.
And then you take that first spoonful.
It is inedible. Hopefully you are alone because now you have to decide what to do with that mushy mouthful.
Spit or swallow. Remember, we’re talking Equity Private here.
I take the former. Bring me the spitoon.
@105, 106
Equity Private is a woman. I’m not creeped out AT ALL thinking about HER privates.
also, I find her writing to be excellent. and look forward to more of her posts at DB, which are different in style from her posts at her own site, which I also enjoy.
Vince Offer will be the special guest writer
Carney — I’m a bit interested in this move you’re making. Seems curious. You’re not punching out into the ether like Emily from Gawker. You’re not getting a “real job” in traditional media like Will Lietch of Deadspin. You’re choosing the Alex Balk route of taking another website position? Not sure this is a solid move for you.
Regardless, I wish you well and hope you learn that regulation is your friend.
Carney,
Best of luck with the new gig, its been fun brosefer.
Who is this mysterious guest writer btw, certainly aint me if anyone was wondering
Male or female, Equity Private should go back to cadette school. She’s no Carney as much as she was being groomed as his replacement.
Like a mouthful of mushy generic cornflakes. Blech.
Carney,
Good Luck…why are you leaving us with Equity Private? He’s awful…
@112 — so glad somebody agrees re Equity Private. (Btw, someone has posted that “he” is a she)
Maybe a tranny?
Either way, unreadable.
I will definitely be spending less time on the site. Always feel like we’re being left with the incompetent substitute when s/he posts.
Don’t know how Carney can leave us in the middle of all this carnage.
Good luck JC, can you please take Equity Private with you and leave us with a Bess only site?
Good Luck Carney. guess i wont have to buy you that drink after all. i’ll buy Bess two.
@106,
EP is a woman… Confirmed… The rest is up to you to decide… She kicked my ass at chess… 6 out 6 games… I didn’t get her into check twice in the same match until the 6th game.
She is/was a grandmaster level player for what it is worth…
~SEG
I maybe stupid, but I am not an idiot… usually…
John,
Congratulations on all the success here at dealbreaker and on the few position. I definately enjoyed your writing and it will be missed. Whoever is taking your position has big shoes to fill.
best,
gals, ep is obviously really smart, has humor, and a certain style that you might or might not like. oh, and i think she has a rather well paying job other than db. in any case (at least for me) it makes sense to read when smart people write. im looking forward to her posts.
@carney: it was great reading your posts and have a good trip!
So long Carney, all the best! You did great coverage last weekend.
I’m with #105, #106 about EP.
#116 – with a Carney-EP swap, dealbreaker is likely checkmate.
@116 —
I guess we have to ask how good a chess player you are. ;)
While it’s impressive that EP kicked your butt 6 times, how does that translate into her being a skilled DB contributor? Just wondering…
(I dread making this comparison, but isn’t that like Palin claiming to be an expert on foreign policy because she can see Russia from her house?? *)
*Disclaimer – that was not a veiled attempt at degenerating this into a heated political discussion.
I don’t get why the fuck being a grandmaster at chess is supposed to be impressive? Playing chess is no different than any other task- like tying a good shoelace, wrapping a gift really nicely, or doing long multiplication in your head. If you suck at it, with practice you can get better.
Equity Private still sucks ass at writing articles for a financial gossip blog.
wait a sec….he actually got paid to write for this site?
Oct 87 is coming back when Palin farts.
Carney,
Best of luck. It was awesome reading your work. You certainly went out on top of your game with covering the MER sale to BAC and the AIG collapse – beat those fucks at MSM. You did it, did it well and most important did it with style and panache. And fuck’em if they didn’t like it. We did.
Enjoy your new gig…just don’t fuck it up because once we say adios here that’s it…Bess is our new lord and savior.
Enjoy a drink….or 10. You deserve it. Job well done sir.
jc, hope you can get to a more mature blog like your little sister TIMMMMMAAAAY Carney
@124…can’t and shouldn’t forget the LEH collapse…Carney batted a 1.000
Hasta luego hombre.
carney, ive been a critic of yours in the past, and a month ago would have cheered your departure. but after last weekend and indeed this work week, i actually find myself hating to see you go. good job ole boy
did you get lucky with Bess?
John, what you wrote here was news-breaking, insightful and irreverent. Hope your new job doesn’t interfere with your best qualities.
The new surprise writer is going to be Bess’ boss?
What’s the over/under on how long before she kills and eats him?
Anyone know what Ben and Hank told the Senators that made them wet themselves in fear? *Serious shit.*
Dodd and others keep dropping little tidbits, but that’s the same kind of shit that Tim Russert used to say about his *seriously scary* private briefings with Cheney and W about Saddam and look where it got him.
JC – just discovered this site about 6-7 months ago, but truly enjoyed your work and commentary. Cheers
i’ll have to think about this tomorrow
with JC gone, can you spend his salary that you are now saving on faster servers?
#130 – you forecasting Dodd’s demise?
Rather than read 132 comments – I had assumed that JC was the owner of DealBreaker. Please feel free to school me as I work harder and get poorer.
Is it just me, or is Carney trying to write like Raymond Chandler?
Re Equity Private –
You know when you rush out of work, barely making the subway, nab a prime locker at the gym during prime time and sprint madly to your spinning class…
only to discover that your beloved instructor left you with a sub?
Well, that’s pretty much what happens with EP’s posts. The headline teases and you are always let down.
Glad to hear that EP has a full-time higher paying gig. Give us a hungry writer that can kick ass!
*Committee to BBC (BringBackCarney)
@101
The Carney is dead.
Long live the Bess!
I clammed it!
i can appreciate what John and his brother have done for DB. Good luck, John!
Is 1-2 going to be the special guest writer? Is there any way I can take Carney’s place?
OH, here’s the scary stuff. figures it would come from some upstart like the NYT now that Carney is out of commission and Bess is busy doing body shots at Joe’s American Bar & Grill.
Ben and Hank Scare the congress Shitless
NY Times. Must be true.
don’t forget the duct tape.
JC – Thanks you did an amazing job over the last 2 weeks. You kicked every MSM mutt, and then some. I will miss you here but will read you there!
As for the IDIOTS who are doubting EP. You might want to do a bit of trolling on her actual resume (yes a her!!!). She is brillant, a player in private equity, and rumored to be the daughter of one of the biggest players (for the last 20 years) on Wall Street (think one of the initials in KKR). So i think she may have the contacts to be viable for this job.
Now i no boys don’t like change, but let there be no doubt she is up to the challenge of writing for this blog and then some.
Boys, perhaps the problem is some of her posts today were a bit intellectual for you? You don’t get her writing style, her wit, her sarcasm…? Perhaps she just needs to dumb them down a bit?
EP – thought your posts today were great. Thank you. Keep it up!!
@142 so what qualifies EP as a great writer according to you are:
- She works in Private Equity (didn’t know they were all fabulous reporters)
- Daughter of a rich/powerful man
Man, think I am all convinced. By that token Bess and Carney must have sucked. EP for Editor in Chief!
@142 — why do are you presuming that you know the gender of posters here. Last I looked, “guest” was gender-neutral.
For the record, I don’t give a crap about EP, who her daddy is or what contacts he has. Apparently, there are many people here (male and female) that don’t care for her style.
@142 —
Ahh … your post makes perfect sense.
Anyone who uses “no” for “know” would obviously have orgasms over EP’s “brilliant” posts.
(note: “brilliant” was used sarcastically. The quotation marks were used to highlight this for your convenience as this site has no editing tools and there was wide concern it might otherwise have gone over your head or been otherwise misinterpreted).
Back to Yahoo boards for you.
Paging Equity Private:
Care to comment on the headline (or should we suppose you take weekends off to play on Daddy’s yacht?)
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080919/FREE/809199985/1048/newsletter01
Analyst: Federal bailout could kill Merrill merger -
Or do you only comment on private equity.
Just asking.
@142- Equity Private blows.
She’s high brow…She’s an insider…She’s super articulate… But, she’s not right for DB. She’s an insider writing as an outsider (evidence the lack of posts breaking news) and perhaps funneling industry rumor/ info to the rest of the DB writing staff for them to write about. This presents Equity Privates’s posts as a compromise from DB to an attention hungry, wannabe sensation. If Equity Private is to stay, then perhaps her posts could aim to be somehting more than simply counter programming to stuff from Bess.
JC,
Best to you.
It has been wonderful fun with you in these tough times
May God bless your good heart
AMEN
PS : Bess needs to pick up a bit…
@142 –
Your argument re PE makes about as much sense (less, actually) than Sarah Palin being an expert on Iraq because her son was just deployed there.
My father’s a surgeon and lives outside of DC. Maybe I will be named the next Surgeon General.
EP needs to disclose her name and identity. Carney was legit because we knew who HE WAS/IS. She lacks that with a coy name and cryptic bio. Readers won’t buy in otherwise.
Bess, a pic of you would help too, seriously. Nothing crazy just something to give us a frame of reference.
JC rock on man, you will be missed.
Cheers to you, Ron Blarney!
@JC:
What a week to put a capstone on your DB run!
Always good to go out on top!
JC, you were paid for doing this!!! Come on, I thought DB was just for fun.
You were actually the best…
A fan from Belgium
@ 143, 144
Some of the negative comments were questioning her competence, experience, and contacts. I was merely pointing out that she has all three in spades.
Her writing style is different that JC and BL but that in and of itself does not make it sub par. Give her (and you) some time to adjust and get used to her style. And if you still don’t like her style than don’t read her posts.
By the way she has had her own blog for for 2 1/2 years. It is widely read and appaulded by people inside the industry.
http://equityprivate.typepad.com/about.html.
Carney — this is like a bad wake. And I wish we would wake up on Monday and find out that you were playing a cruel hoax on us kids.
You absolutely rock and your coverage the past 2 weeks was top notch, and dare I say, provided a certain amount of comfort.
I can’t imagine too many people that would have gone the extra yards that you did knowing that you were leaving.
Hope you come visit us here on the boards and maybe even guest comment. Be sure to put your new site on FB so we can find it.
@155 go ask Elie Mystal over ATL about how people are adjusting to him…
Lets forget about EP here…this is Carney’s post.
@155
Clicked on your link for EP’s blog: 404 error not found. Could we make that the permanent status for EP here as well?
And btw, how does dealbreaker pay it’s staff you suppose? Good advice in asking readers to leave if they don’t like EP’s posts – you are not even fit for yahoo blogs. You can leave now.
@ 145
I realized I made that error as soon as I has posted.
In my defense I have not had more than 3 hours (per night) of sleep since last saturday.
But you are right (write) that error is complete “amateur hour” bull shit.
If I was allowed to, I would short myself at this point.
As for my post, regardless of whether or not you like her writing style, she is qualified for this gig.
sucks to see you go but good luck. Always brought a bit of the “fu@k you” I needed to my day
@155, with due respect, EP has been around here for quite some time (sorry I can’t track it back, but it’s been at least since Spring). I used to think she was a fill-in for Carney or someone that they were grooming.
I don’t think people are questioning EP’s competence, experience, or even her contacts, but rather the “elitist persona” she has created for herself and even the forced familiarity that she imposes on her readers.
Bess and John took the time to develop rapport with readers and established their credibility. As a result, over time they have been able to take certain liberties with us (god forbid, even with Mayo and ShamWow! comments) because we are all part of the same inside joke and have shared the highs and lows of our industry.
I think what doesn’t work for EP (as accomplished as she may be) is that she has not taken the time to establish her credibility with readers and in turn, that has affected her ability to connect and establish her rapport. This makes her come across as an outsider, and even elitist.
In a sense, she’s like the new co-worker who may have all the credentials but tries too hard to fit in and ends up only alienating everyone.
It all just feels very forced and I hope Bess is up to shouldering DB. Don’t get me wrong — Bess Rocks!! But John has left very big shoes to fill.
Until now, I think people tolerated EP and her posts gave Bess and JC a chance to take a breather. But I am not looking forward to seeing her posts on a more frequent basis.
CHRIST FUCKER
CARNEY LEAVES
CLOSE DOWN DB, I SAY
All the best John,
Thank you for all the hard work over the past 2 years and especially for the non-stop coverage over the past 2 weeks.
@159 — don’t beat yourself up re the typo. I don’t think any of us has had much sleep this week.
Just not sure why you are crusading for EP. Sounds like she is accomplished, but DB may not be the right fit for her talents.
And as @158 pointed out, advertisers are what pays DB’s bills.
Carney — why oh why have you left us?? I just cried in my Sham-WOW … and ya know, those buggers *are* absorbent.
As though this past week of a shitstorm wasn’t enough, look what I just found when I googled Equity Private:
AArrggh! She has to speak-pirate, too?
Bess, we will help you find new employment. DB is DOOMED !!!
http://equityprivate.typepad.com/
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Ahoy!
Pira Avast, ye lubbers and learned readers. Ya scallywags be interested t’ know that I hav’n come ‘longside and boarded HMS DealBreaker.com, as Captain ‘n Interim Editor in Chief, replac’in t’ old sea dog Captain John “Jameson” Carney who now find ‘im marooned on t’ bleak desert isle ‘arrr Clusterstock.com. Aye, he’s a whisky drinker and sips no rum f’ sure. Come aboard and enjoy t’ fray. (Also, know ye that it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. Y’arrrrr!).
EP is interim Editor-in-Chief here.
We can just kiss Dealbreaker goodbye now.
in.the.know
how are you so in the know?
@ 149 exactly what qualifications do you deem necessary for EP to be successful at dealbreaker?
@166– no one said ep is the editor in chief dumb fuck.
@165– carney was a hack writer and a total douche as a person to boot. everyone knows bess is the draw of this site. it won’t be hard to replace the “serious” editor.
Carney,
Really? Have fun making 4K a week for three weeks before you’re demoted back here! Idiot……
Yeah, strike while the iron’s balls are hot and land another blog job. You are in no way better than that Yallie that ended up
in the back office at DB
You’ll be missed John.
JC, you will be missed. Your coverage during the past week was ridiculous. Good luck. See you at clusterstock.
Best of luck to you JC, and to the new Dealbreaker as well.
John,
God bless, best of luck going forward with anything you do. You’ve done well on this site, and you should be proud!
// blows up own building then implicates himself with two big thumbs
//// howard roark’ed
mayo will never be the same
@159 “I has posted”? Really? I thought EP would be able to afford a press agent who speaks English as a first language. Stick to the yahoo boards son, it’s too much sham wow for you here.
Carney; what are you, just fed up with Wall Street guys still making money and ending up, more or less, okay? Dude, what about all those middle Americans who were buying 2 million dollar homes and making only 60k a year? They are not at fault? It’s all the “WALL STREET EXECS IN BOARDROOMS, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, MAKING DECISIONS” , right? Whatever, dude-
I’m happy Bess is taking over; she was always better than you, anyway….see ya never, scrub.
Carney; what are you, just fed up with Wall Street guys still making money and ending up, more or less, okay? Dude, what about all those middle Americans who were buying 2 million dollar homes and making only 60k a year? They are not at fault? It’s all the “WALL STREET EXECS IN BOARDROOMS, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, MAKING DECISIONS” , right? Whatever, dude-
I’m happy Bess is taking over; she was always better than you, anyway….see ya never, scrub.
Carney; what are you, just fed up with Wall Street guys still making money and ending up, more or less, okay? Dude, what about all those middle Americans who were buying 2 million dollar homes and making only 60k a year? They are not at fault? It’s all the “WALL STREET EXECS IN BOARDROOMS, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, MAKING DECISIONS” , right? Whatever, dude-
I’m happy Bess is taking over; she was always better than you, anyway….see ya never, scrub.
Carney; what are you, just fed up with Wall Street guys still making money and ending up, more or less, okay? Dude, what about all those middle Americans who were buying 2 million dollar homes and making only 60k a year? They are not at fault? It’s all the “WALL STREET EXECS IN BOARDROOMS, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, MAKING DECISIONS” , right? Whatever, dude-
I’m happy Bess is taking over; she was always better than you, anyway….see ya never, scrub.
John, many thanks for your coverage of all things fucked up on Wall Street. Best of luck at clusterstock.
Bess & EP, keep up the good work. I do like each of your styles.
I’m looking forward to the surprises Monday has for us…
A reader since Jan 08, Paris.
Good luck Carney. Kudos for all your work on Dealbreaker.
Don’t go John. Where can we buy you a Jameson?
@169 — you are the dumb fuck. Why don’t you try reading the posts. Someone pointed out that EP (Equity Private) has another blog and on that blog, EP announced the fact that she she has been named interim editor in chief here at DB.
The blog entry and link is even pasted above (see @165) but clearly you are too much of a dumb ass to verify or read what is posted.
Still don’t believe it? Google “Equity Private” and it is the first or second hit. See the blog entry dated 9/18. Ignore her pirate-speak. It’s as retarded as her posts.
Whoever said it earlier, I concur. DB is doomed. Hopefully Bess won’t pack up on us too.
Scrub@#179+3…
scrub, your 4x parting shot at Mr. Carney speaks volumes about you.
Still arrogant, still stupid, still entitled, you can’t even muster up sufficient maturity in order to stop focusing on yourself long enough to wish him well.
You’re pathetic.
The Guy from Delaware
Good luck to Carney but this is sad. The lack of adult supervision could do DB in. No matter how funny, the other writer is a walking disaster (legality wise). She has already used IP addresses of folks to expose their workplace etc, which is in clear violation of the privacy policy and use of IP rules of Dead Horse Media. They need to get some adult in here soon.
Hey JC – best of luck to ya wherever you go. Ever since I started working around Wall St. pricks; as a result of being acquired by one of these sleaze pits a few years back, I’ve loved coming to DB to get my daily schadenfreude kick. This site is awesome, and everyone on the editorial staff rocks.
Best of luck to you man, and thanks for being a part of the team that’s made such a happy home for those of us that know the emperor’s not wearing any clothes!
@187- carney allowed it, genius.
Thanks for the daily fix, JC. Best of luck to ya.
Now, your new dig at the HB’s – isn’t he the guys famous for saying something like “let’s put some lipstick on this POS”? Hope he is a saint now after all these years.
Carney,
Best of luck, we will miss you.
very anti-climatic, your story of dealbreaker calling. “they offered me a job,I was unemployed living on a park bench, i took the job”
well, at least you wont be there to cock block me with Bess.
@187. Don’t be an asshole and you won’t get fucked.
JC, way to call peak financial news!
Your reporting in the past month has been great and you’re going out on the top of your game.
Maybe DB could bring back Muffie Benson-Perella ?
When I retire I will give one last shout out to sponsors. Mike’s Hard Lemonaide !!!
@16
What is O Magazine?
Dealbreaker needs to merge with KEITH HAHN to survive!
KEITH HAHN KEITH HAHN!
@186. TGFD, I don’t always like you. But for once, you and I are in complete agreement.
@179. Grow up, get off the blow, and stop fucking hitting the fucking button so many motherfucking times.
ALl the best JC, you’ve really created something Sham-Wow! here with DB. Your coverage over the last month has been exemplary. It would be nice to have your reporting around until the empire has been rebuilt, but i’ll be checking in on the new forum. Try to drop in and make a guest appearance every once-in-awhile. You’ll be missed.
- S. Cohen
@186.
179 + 3 = 182 no? Who can blame JC (not jesus, the other one) for moving on to another forum that’s “less-juvenile.”
- Wachovia
@199–”less juvenile”
what a douche. get over yourself, JC.
too gone, didn’t read.
If Carney were still here, he would have already commented on the possible breakdown of the Merrill/BofA deal.
Way to change perception, Equity Private (or maybe Daddy’s yacht doesn’t have internet service in these tough times)
Amateur.
interim editor-in-chief, indeed.
Bess should have been named, not you (though DB hasn’t reported this … you took the liberty of “announcing” on your other blog)
Pretty classy (not)
@202– stop being a whiney bitch. “if carney were here” wah wah wah. well he’s not, so get over it. and since db hasn’t said EP’s interim-e-i-c, she probably isn’t, just put it on her site.
@203, get your head out of your ass and read the prior postings. @202 is far from the only reader on here that has issues with EP and her horrendous writing.
@204– well suck it the fuck up or stop reading. simple as that. the whole “if carney were here bs” makes him/her sound like a 7 year old.
went out like a champ
@205, honestly, if EP came to a sudden stop, you are the one who might need help extracting your head out of ass. Saying ‘If Carney was here’ is quite well justified after his coverage last weekend. Now, bugger off.
@207– the fact that you can’t stop posting about how much you hate EP is quite telling.
@208 what does your post say? Think it says precisely what @207 said. And no I’m not @202.
@209– it says, if you feel the need to cry about ‘ep sucks!’ do it once. constantly coming back to say it over and over implies you have some sort of axe to grind with her.
-208
JC, sad to see you go. best of luck!
Equity Private is one of the most intelligent, insightful, and knowledgeable bloggers out there. I had no idea DB was so full of people dumbfounded by words 3+ syllables who then, out of frustration with their own pitiful conprehension skills, scapegoat Equity Private’s “bad writing.” Get a dictionary or an education, losers.
It is almost ironic, how well John Carlos named this, his last official post at DB as E in C. We his eclecticism readers have some how turned his wake into a slobber knocker over EP.
Juan deserves better respect then this… the gang can agree to disagree on EP for the rest of her posting career here, this is however whats his names last official post…
A drink to the death of capitalism and Juan what ever his name was…
~SEG
So long Carney. Goodbye and good luck. ES.
Carney, didn’t have a chance last week but congrats and good luck
@212, didn’t realize you had taken up PR for EP to make ends meet. Guess it’s a step up from “would you like fries with that”.
I’ve seen no fewer than 20 posts here bashing the fit of EP’s writings here on DB and I can assure you, mine accounted for only 1 of those postings — rest assured there are a good number of readers here who are not happy with her style (nor timeliness of late).
I guess people were willing to overlook her shortcomings paired with the strength of Carney and Bess. Now we are stuck with it and she has annointed herself interim editor-in-chief on her outside blog.
She may have talent, but her feigned connection with the readers here is painfully obvious.
From a business model perspective, don’t forget, DB sustains itself by advertisers. A drop in readership will translate to a drop of revenues, no matter how may ShamWOWs!! people post. So, think before you tell people to go elsewhere. They probably will anyway, and there will be no one to blame but EP, from the deck of daddy’s yacht.
TAFR
Who is Cede & Company?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugMNLVThAcU
What is Dark liquidity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP5PA5_Lokw
The forum had been compensated a long time ago.
“The best readers in finance”…are the ones who never commented…much.
Carney got what we needed him to get out.
Good work Carney. A service.
Those of us who positioned early against the evil empire will be rewarded.
Another aggregator bites the dust. I smell news…
The establishment is going down.
Molotov’s lit, go for the hard assets men…ignore that paper stuff. Stay low pro, and take the other side.
Wall Street G
Drink Up Yo!
It’s all rediulously simple to see they are trying to steal our money – look at the math:
http://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/11666666-home-owners-could-be-rescued-from-foreclosure/
it’s a crime!