I don't care how many zeros you had on your Schedule K-1 form last quarter, it doesn't get even remotely close to the ballerishness implicit in wielding so many blank checks with the logo of the United States Treasury in the upper left hand corner that one checkbook (and we are talking about the leather bound corporate ledger checkbooks here, folks) just isn't going to cut it. There is no limit to your ability to lay claim to "getting it done" as a way of life when the top drawer of your desk holds a pair of those books. No, sir.
And let me tell you something else. There are a vanishingly small number of positions that permit you to overcome an awkward past best described by sentences like "where he developed technology for NASA space science missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope," and claim this kind of rarefied status. "Interim Director, Office of Financial Stability, United States Treasury," my dear friends, is one of them.
Paulson to Tap Adviser to Run Rescue Program [The Wall Street Journal]
Treasury Officials [United States Department of the Treasury]
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 9:43AM
"Neel Kashkari". OMG where are all these names coming from? "Cash and Carry"? What subliminal message is that relaying?
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 9:43AM
What a shocker... Goldman Sachs.
Posted by Henry Ryecroft , Oct 06, 2008 9:46AM
Awesome. A biofuel boondoggler is now a financial overlord.
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 9:50AM
3 He's also 1) GS 2) Wharton. Nuf said.
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 9:54AM
Ali Velshi?
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 9:55AM
$700 billion.
We could have had teleporters for that money. B'stids.
Posted by Investorcluzo , Oct 06, 2008 9:56AM
what happened with the fnm/fre cds auction?
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 10:07AM
I hope they update the strategerycapital.com website with his info.
Posted by NotNasser , Oct 06, 2008 10:07AM
Neel Kashkari.
Is it pronounced, "Kneel, cash, carry"!
The first two words from the occupant of such a financial Throne room I understand. He commands that I kneel while he is taking my cash. But what is it that he is commanding that this humble serf carry for him?
Posted by Novice , Oct 06, 2008 10:45AM
@4 You forgot his most important qualification. The reason for him being part of Paulson's cadre. I swear, they're trying to sap and impurify our precious wavy locks. He's bald.
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 11:11AM
Indian is the new Jew.
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 11:30AM
I was expecting Ben Dover
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 1:12PM
Is he a 35-yr old indian baller or a 35-yr old muslim baller?
@9, Good point. All will kneel before that muslim fuck while he carries away your cash.
How can anybody trust that bastard?
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 1:44PM
@13 -
Yo Honky. he's Hindu, actually. and he happens to be your boy Hank's top adviser. whats it like knowing we (indians) run shit whiteboy? maybe i'll ask your mom whose about to put her pasty white crotch up in the air so i can slide my big brown indian tube steak down her nice pink prune-y asshole. its almost 2pm here. dont you start your afternoon shift at Pacific Sunwear?
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 2:41PM
is it just me or does he look like ben kingsley, the actor who played "Gandhi"?
-clueless
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 3:11PM
The family name is quite Persian but the first name is a giveaway, it is a Hindu name. And no, he is NOT Indian, he is an American of Indian origin.
Btw 'Indian' is a nationality and 'Muslim' is a religious identity. So there can be Indian Muslims as well as American Muslims, and at the same time there can be Hindu Indians as well as Christian Indians.
Looks like Congress is not the only refuge of ignorant critters. How can it be, after all Congressmen just representat the broader population.
Posted by Henry Ryecroft , Oct 06, 2008 3:22PM
@15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6l0riVfdHQ
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 4:25PM
@17
i think it is nsfw.
-clueless
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2008 5:08PM
Are they no hirsuite men left in Washington ?
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 4:32PM
@15- Kingsley is half-indian
yep, hindus always go with 'sellout names', much in the same way the Chinese, et al. do.
'Neel', 'Jay', 'Vik', 'Sid' (short for 'Siddarth'!), along with gay ones such as 'Bunny', are fairly common. Indian muslims generally stand their ground here.
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 4:38PM
@20- unless you count "Ifty"! ;)
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 4:42PM
he wasn't even a MD at GS??? just a VP?
maybe some sort of EVP...?
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 4:48PM
Given his Persian name, could he be Zoroastrian? Dont know what that is? Think back to your reading of Moby Dick -the guy that worships the mast when its on fire. Or look it up.
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 4:52PM
19 Check out his five oclock shadow. I'm thinking (and I know these things) that, despite a shaved head, he's one hairy dude. Sexy in a way. Shirtless and in a leather vest, he would have his pick on any night at The Eagle. GAnalYst
Posted by guest , Oct 08, 2008 10:54PM
I love all your comments ... Kneel Cash and Carry ... ha ha ... Zoroastrian he is not ...
I thought he was Marathi from Maharastra. But, I googled further and somebody wrote that his parents, father rof of Engg and mother a pathologist, were from Jammu and Kashmir.
Another great comment. Ali Velshi ?
... and 'He commands that I kneel while he is taking my cash. But what is it that he is commanding that this humble serf carry for him? '...
You guys are great ... but the Honky comment is I think way below the belt. Hey, see if you Indian, brown guys, can talk intellectually, without stooping to the Honky level ... try it ... you'll feel better.
I am a Hindu Indian American myself. It is so easy to take sweet revenge in curse language. But, it debases me and us more. Nuf of sermons from me.
Looks like 'Ben Kingsley ?' ... ha ha ... 'Sexy in a way' ... ha ha ... you guys are good.
But, consider these achievements -
1. Started up HOPE NOW ... fantastic non-profit organization
2. fast-track loan-modification program
3. And, I assume other mortgage related programs
I really think he is a Democrat in Republican garb.
Actually, folks, read up on Newsweek article ... it is actually a CDO $62 Trillion (with a T not a B) boondogle that Wall Street greedy people have created not $700 Billion.
Arun
Posted by guest , Mar 26, 2009 3:22PM
@20: Uh... Neel, Vik and Jay/Jai are all Hindu names, not "sell-out" Western names.
And what's with the "cash carry" comments? Kashkari is not prounced anything like that. I think it's fairly obvious you should using using a long A.