$$$ Bethany McLean: “The five hotshots who took Fortress Investment Group public were worth billions at first. Today they look like arrogant showboats, and their story helps explain why hedge funds are imploding by the thousands–and why there’s still a truckload of money to be made.” [VF]
$$$ Beautiful Banker Yields Interest: Life After Goldman Is a Catwalk! [Observer]
$$$ Specialists Pay $70 Million to Settle S.E.C. Charges [Dealbook]
$$$ Goldman lays off down under [The Deal]
$$$ Bubba To Talk Green [Fortune]
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That Observer article, also mocked by Gawker, is so scary and sad.
Everything about I-Bankers is just so douchey, so one-dimensional. I dont how close to Spanish, Fratish is.
Everyone, read the article. Thoughts?
‘she said it was normal size’
“that’s about the size of it”
Why am I so unsurprised by the front running done by Goldman Sachs, Knight Financial and E*Trade?
I’m squishing your head… I’m squishing your head…
re: Observer article
Investing in real estate in Buenos Aires would be a GREAT way to lose what little funds you have left. They love gringos down there who come with their hard currency, and it’s rife with tite problems, undeclared extra rooms / floors, and a line of inspectors, agents, and lawyers to bribe.
I also like how it makes someone who made it to Associate seem like he quit while he was on top of the world and now will just collect art or something…
I just read to the part about how he went to Dartmouth after prep school … ’nuff said.
8==D~~
I think Bethany McLean is rather tasty. Lose the conservative dress and you’ll do it for me. Thanks, babe!
“Steven Cohen, who runs the multi-billion-dollar fund SAC Capital, became the trendsetter when he paid $8 million in 2004 for British artist Damien Hirst’s shark in formaldehyde. He also owns two de Koonings that he bought from DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen for $63 million and $137.5 million, respectively, as well as works by Picasso, Warhol, Pollock, and Munch.”
I wonder what the MTM (and mark to model) is on those.
bethany mclean = mom from Weeds
The Vanity Fair article had an interesting quote from the head of York Capital who said, when he started his fund, he never expected to make anything like what he has. Think of all the people who accumulated a net worth of, say, $20 million or more by working in hedge funds. How many got into the industry this decade, when doing so seemed like a no-brainer? Probably not very many. The moguls of tomorrow are currently toiling on ventures at which “respectable” people are scoffing.
@11 what worries me about your comments is that the only thing i can think of, off the top of my head “that respectable people are scoffing about” is working for Geithner @ treasury.
At this point, since the government is intent on inserting itself into all corners of the markets, a decade from now working for Treasury may be the last profitable venture.
Capitalism is out. Capitolism is in.
11/12 government is the only growth industry left.
Everything else is just a source of funds for the new, grand experiment.
“I am a lobbyist” will be the pick up line of 2017.
New goldmine is in being a “service provider” to the new USA, Inc.
That banker is hot
“Today they look like arrogant showboats”
Unlike, say, those guys on Capitol Hill, or Andrew Cuomo…
The VF article was actually very well done. Cliff was even kind enough to drop some knowledge without expletives. Fancy that.
It still boggles my mind why people are so willing to talk with media regarding their personal lives. David Webb – please don’t reveal your sexual exploits to the masses. Discussing when you ‘broke your cherry’ or what that first lassie felt like in the big ol’ bright-lit city of New Yorrrk…you are the world’s asshole.
I still remember picking up the post the morning they “interviewed” that cute south-asian girl that LSO made fun of (via a letter from Gopal, if I’m correct?). Put your head down, and shut the fuck up.
Please remind me why anyone would be compelled to divulge personal stories you’d hide from a current or ex-lover to the masses. Are we that desparate for approval? I mean, it makes for comedy gold, but aren’t you ashamed? Do you have no shame, Sire anti-bberry-user, Mr. Webb? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H22q1iDOKA
“It’s also worth noting that, despite all the problems in hedge-fund land and the clamor for more regulation (and there will be more regulation), you don’t see any hedge-fund managers in Washington with their hands outstretched for a piece of the bailout pie.”
Cue the fundie requests for bailout money. Or isn’t that what the Talf is set up to do?
Jesus, I don’t even know anymore, everything is just becoming a blur. I should probably stop doing drugs.
Does anyone else have the feeling that we’re going to wake up in a few months in some kind of a civil war/revolutionary scenario?
I don’t even know what side I’d be on right now.
Fuck it, I’m going to sell all my shit over the next few weeks and move to Montana. I’ve just freaked myself the fuck out.
“The Asset” should have killed this guy David Webb when he had the chance…
that guy (ex-banker) is such a cliche it’s hilarious
Isn’t this new anagram going to “save the hedgies”, sort of like “saving the wales”?
Maybe Tiny Tim ain’t so tiny after all.
“It’s about this long”
was it this:
“…only the little people pay taxes”
“Congressman, Paulson only violated me this much, before I agreed to go along with his half-a$$ed plan”