• 07 Apr 2009 at 6:43 PM

Write-Offs: 04.07.09

By Equity Private

$$$ A displaced banker guides tourists through the carnage [The Big Money]
$$$ PIMCO Manager On Becoming Fourth Branch Of Government: Who, Us? [TPM]
$$$ AIG’s Bank Payments Probed By TARP Inspector General [Bloomberg]
$$$ Taking stock of AIG ads past. [Playboy]
$$$ A Night with the Bears [CNW Group]

Comments (17)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM

    Al-Larian is full of Arabic camel shit.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 6:13 PM

    I almost clicked on the Playboy link. Is it even considered NSFW?

  3. 3
    Posted by legal eagle | April 7, 2009 at 6:19 PM

    Still the best AIG commercial (and possibly one of the best commercials) I’ve ever seen:
    http://www.jeroenbours.com/gallery.php?type=work&uid=88

  4. 4
    Posted by Investorcluzo | April 7, 2009 at 6:23 PM

    @2 – if you’re not blocked by big brother, it’s SFW. but do you really want to answer to the internet security people as to why you went there?

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM

    day in the life of hank greeeenberg
    12:00 pm: Lunch at Four Seasons in the Pool Room. Informs the coat check girl that “it wasn’t my fault, I left in 2005″ on the way in. Arugula and Shaved Fennel Salad followed by Steak Tartare. Jimmy Cayne drops by the table to say, “Don’t let the bastards bring you down, it wasn’t your fault.” Pretends he doesn’t know who Jimmy Cayne is, mortified that this pothead is talking to him in public.
    http://thereformedbroker.com/2009/04/07/a-day-in-the-life-hank-greenberg/

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    I love the postscripts at the end. It’s easy to preach about ethical breaches among bankers, eh? I bet you’re even more persuasive when you make shit up. Good job Emily, you’ve got a great career in journalism ahead of you.
    * Correction (April 7 1:20 p.m.): A passage was removed from an earlier version of this article because the reporter Emily Schmall misrepresented the views of the source.
    * Correction (April 7 5:33 p.m.): This sentence was changed because the reporter Emily Schmall misrepresented the source.

  7. 7
    Posted by trojan | April 7, 2009 at 7:04 PM

    We wanted to blast the world free of history…. picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You’ll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We’ll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what’s left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 8:33 PM

    That guy is pretty creative, wonder if his tours are full and what he charges. That is the kind of creativity that Tim and ben are up against.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    CNBC reporting that the WSJ says they are extending TARP to live insurers.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 9:04 PM

    @6
    major fucking nerd

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM

    10 – someone posting on a blog is calling someone a nerd – rich

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    I wonder what the interest would be for a tour of all the dumps I’ve strumped in the last year. I’d wager significant, significant interest.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    @ 12- give it up, “brah”… it’ll never be counted amongst the ranks of ShamWow, Mayo, tl;dr, wideclops, etc.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | April 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    Good point – I should do a “spots at which to blart a fart” tour instead.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | April 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM

    Found some good links.
    http://bit.ly/4BBjc8
    Sheila Bair is on acid, apparently.

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | April 8, 2009 at 3:12 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYwNWHZuT0&NR=1

  17. 17
    Posted by american bandersnatch | April 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    @6 – Give Emily a break. She’s writes human interest stories for a little-read web site. Every day she has to chose between fictionalizing her stories to try to make them even moderately interesting or realizing the true status of her career and killing herself.

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