• 13 Oct 2008 at 9:03 AM

Unfounded Rumor Of The Morning: Bankrupt Bjork-ville Edition

By Bess Levin

smallcrabhands.jpgSupposedly, Blackstone has been retained to advise the Icelandic government in general.
Equally amusing*: Iceland to sue over ‘bullying’ reaction.
*Just kidding, nothing is as amusing as Crab Hands going to bat for Iceland.

Comments (12)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:10 AM

    I still can’t believe Clay is gay. http://www.clayaiken.com/

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:11 AM

    Solution: Bottle some of that glacier water and sell it to the Park Ave crowd. Problem solved.
    Also botox shots made from Polar bear sphincters would sell well at Bloomies.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM

    do they have polar bears in(on?) iceland?

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:38 AM

    why crab hands?

  5. 5
    Posted by diablo | October 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM

    Goldman Sachs follows in the footsteps of Lehman and Morgan Stanley:
    http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/10/13/afx5542229.html
    Thomson Financial News
    UPDATE 1-Goldman faces limits in Platts oil window-sources
    10.13.08, 6:30 AM ET
    DUBAI/SINGAPORE, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs, the biggest oil trader on Wall Street, has been restricted from making a market in price assessment agency Platts’ daily oil trading window as counterparty anxiety grows, two sources familiar with the move said on Monday.
    Goldman is the latest in a series of major investment banks to be placed under a so-called ‘review’ by Platts, which has said it may sometimes need to limit the activities of some companies in its half-hour price-discovery process if their acceptability by counterparties threatens to distort benchmark prices.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM

    >Polar bears in Iceland
    No not in general. Once in a while after a night out on the town in the North Pole one or two will pass out and end up floating on an Iceberg south to Iceland. Where they will ramble upon some unsuspecting local yodel and consequently have to be shot due to their general disposition to eat said yodels.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 9:46 AM

    Bess, what the fuck is this over at ATL? From Kash Hill….
    Ed. note: Happy Columbus Day. And to the Canadians, happy Thanksgiving. Our publisher Breaking Media has encouraged us to embrace the holiday spirit on this second Monday of October, so we will not be publishing today. We’ll see you tomorrow.
    You and EP are still posting strong…fucking weaklings. You rock that shit.

  8. 8
    Posted by EricM | October 13, 2008 at 9:49 AM

    According to eye witness reports Friday’s Brawl on Wall turned out to be nothing more than the Fizzle fo’ shizzle.
    Also rumored, DB to rename “guest” account “Gasbag 2.0″ immediately.
    Congrats to @girl for having foreseen that everyone’s wife/gf would phone in emergency errand orders.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 10:13 AM

    Will Iceland be paying Blackstone’s fees in crabs and other crustaceans?
    It does have a large fishing industry.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 10:25 AM

    Screw Iceland. Greenland is the new Williamsburg.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM

    Blackstone is doing SemGroup too

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2008 at 12:27 PM

    @5 it’s a pun on Black Stone Crabs..whose claws are damn tasty. And the fact the Blackstone group is always grabbing something with it’s crab hands I suppose.

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