• 17 Sep 2008 at 6:10 PM

Write-Offs: 09.17.08

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$$$ I-Bankers Speak Out [IvyGate]
$$$ We Pay So Much For So Little [The Icahn Report]
$$$ How Magazines Led Investors Toward Ruin [Gawker]
$$$ Blackstone: We’re On Top of the Stinking Pile! [Portfolio]
$$$ Lehman swag [Guest of a Guest]
$$$ Should the Front Page of NYT.com Be Giving Us a Panic Attack? [mediabistro]

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    Comments (21)

    1. 1
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 6:40 PM

      These pretzels are making me FIRSTY!

    2. 2
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 6:54 PM

      Bess, please concentrate on posts with positive information content.

    3. 3
      Posted by MostOffensive | September 17, 2008 at 7:15 PM

      love any time ivygate is quoted somewhere even marginally more reputable

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM

      anybody care to guess where MS opens tomorrow.
      No deal tonight (according to CNBC) and actively looking for one.

    5. 5
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 7:48 PM

      this shit is getting bad
      is no one can short financials… say good by to long/short hf

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 7:49 PM

      JC getting props from Icahn? Don’t let it get to ya head kid.

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 7:57 PM

      F the Ivy League. When’s the last time they won a NCAA tournament. Bush went to the Ivy League. You guys can keep him. No, really you can.

    8. 8
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:16 PM

      anyone know of anyone who worked at bear and then moved to lehman?

    9. 9
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM

      i know a couple people laid off from other firms who got jobs a lehman… but looks like Barclays may pick them up. Its better than the Bear situation, Barclays has no US operations to speak of.

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:34 PM

      Morgan Stanley: GONE
      CNBC – Morgan Stanley in Talks with Chinese Bank Citic

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:37 PM

      @7
      Besides Bush, many other people went to Ivy League.
      Sorry for you dude.

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:38 PM

      this picture makes the bad people in my head go away … http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=12251

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:42 PM

      @12
      I just got a funny tingly feeling in my pants.

    14. 14
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 8:45 PM

      @12 that was the highlight of my day
      btw, does anyone really think GS can stand a chance alone?

    15. 15
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 9:00 PM

      Isn’t an MS Wachovia merger just a blatant attempt to create a bank that is too big to fail and must be bailed out. Wasn’t Wachovia getting hammered a few days ago.

    16. 16
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 9:01 PM

      Hey Steve Schwartzman,
      What about $800 million inwestor money you pay out to youself and to other 4 “masters of universe” in bonus right after Brackstone IPO? Where is it?
      I ask you bout this before, and you can’t wemember.
      Let me make crear. I have 5 ninja warriors right here just waiting to come NYC and kung-foo you fat ass.
      Will that help you memory?
      That $10 million you pay me last week “special bonus” not enough.
      Wagg Dee Dong
      Disgruntled Chinese Inwestor

    17. 17
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM

      A transcript of Siegels latest lecture in Bagholding 101. There will be a test.
      http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2052
      “Calling a bottom, I think that right now, we are going to be forming a bottom”

    18. 18
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM

      Every time I hear that word, I think of Bess’s plump, hairy bottom.

    19. 19
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 11:48 PM

      #18, “you are not the first to pass this way”
      man, I love that ride…

    20. 20
      Posted by guest | September 17, 2008 at 11:59 PM

      my sincerest apologies. I was NOT, repeat NOT responding to number 18, I mistyped the key and didn’t check. So much for multitasking. I was responding to the person who called the bottom, number 17.
      when I realized how the post could be interpreted by the group on this site a horrifying chill went down my spine.

    21. 21
      Posted by trojan | September 18, 2008 at 5:46 AM

      http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12234844&source=features_box3

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