• 28 Apr 2009 at 7:20 PM

Write-Offs: 04.28.09

By Bess Levin

$$$ Fox revives ‘Wall Street’ sequel: Oliver Stone back on board [LATimes]
$$$ Frank Sees Banks TARP – Free In A Year [Reuters]
$$$ S&P’s “Weakest Links” List Rises to Record 300 Companies [Research Recap]
$$$ Clarium Capital founder Peter Thiel: “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.” [Cato Unbound via Gawker]

Comments (23)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    Shia Lebouf is going to play a trader. Doesn’t seem right. Somehow I can’t see the former star of even stevens pulling off a scene in which he orders bottle service and then takes a model home.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 7:58 PM

    ya baby Wall Street 2

  3. 3
    Posted by Seaman Bodine II | April 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM

    Hah – would love to know how all the Rudettes in SF respond to PT’s rant.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 8:57 PM

    Peter Thiel’s a fuckin lunatic.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM

    That’s all we need a whole new generation of douche bag Wall Street wannabes quoting Gekko and the Witwicky kid for the next 20 years. Guarantee that arse TGFD is at the head of the line…..

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    guest@5 though I told TGFD that I thought that I _might_ be hatin his guts, I am starting to warm to his point of view again. He is very humble and accepts blame with dignity. He also dishes as good as he gets.
    Don’t judge the book by its writing.
    Just Sayin’

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 9:28 PM

    @6 have some guts and stick with your original impressions of TGFD. You sound like a big waffling puss…
    TGFD is a nitwit…
    Just Sayin’

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 9:36 PM

    @7 your hatred for the guy blinds you to the truth buried in my words.
    Later! Gotta go pump Erins fun bags.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 9:41 PM

    speaking of clarium, interesting read from their latest letter to investors
    http://www.marketfolly.com/2009/04/peter-thiels-clarium-capital-investor.html

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 10:05 PM

    How i clarium doing? I heard they lost 60% second half of last year?

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 11:00 PM

    This is your Lord and Savior. WHERE IS MY PORTFOLIO!?!?!

  12. 12
    Posted by trojan | April 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    @5
    arse?
    limey.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM

    “Among the smartest conservatives, this pessimism often manifested in heroic drinking; the smartest libertarians, by contrast, had fewer hang-ups about positive law and escaped not only to alcohol but beyond it.”

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | April 28, 2009 at 11:58 PM

    thiel may be a little far out there, but he’s fundamentally right.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    @14- totally, especially about the underlying message that shit started to go downhill when women got the right to vote./sarcasm

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 12:05 AM

    re thiel: guy took 5,000 words to say what could’ve been accomplished in 4– “I”m a nutjob, folks.”

  17. 17
    Posted by Anal_yst | April 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM

    the comment captured in @13 (and the paragraph in which it resides) was by far the best part of the Theil piece. I’ll leave it to the audience to guess where myself and/or others fit into that description…

  18. 18
    Posted by sugardaddy | April 29, 2009 at 4:16 AM

    In the new libertarian world, we shall settle the seas.

  19. 19
    Posted by Novice | April 29, 2009 at 4:43 AM

    @13 I am a conservative after all.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 6:48 AM

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiz06xRmmeOQ&refer=home
    6 of 19 banks need more Cash (Stress tests)
    Ken oh Ken, you too, Vik.

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM

    #1 is the typical models n bottlse d-bag who im sure has no experience with it. Essentially, people who give the rest of us a bad name.
    Go back to the mail room j-off

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM

    #1 is the typical models n bottles d-bag who im sure has no experience with it. Essentially, people who give the rest of us a bad name.
    Go back to the mail room j-off

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | April 29, 2009 at 8:52 AM

    ban tgfd asap

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