• 05 Oct 2009 at 6:45 PM

Write-Offs: 10.05.09

By Bess Levin

$$$ Bank of America has no idea who it’s going to name CEO. A suggestion– go through the list of talented employees KL “brutally fired” on account of being threatened by them, starting with this genius, whose canning apparently came down from the top. [NYT]
$$$ NYC Taxis Are Made Of Gold [Cityfile]
$$$ In Defense of Goldman’s $1 Billion Payoff From CIT [The Atlantic]
$$$ The Demise Of The Dollar [Independent]
$$$ Matt Taibbi Falls For A Naked Short Selling Hoax Video [BI]
$$$ “Mr. Eitel also spent a great deal of time wooing clients from his 80-foot yacht, Eitel Time. With his boat, which had 11 televisions, a hot tub on the flybridge and a sunken granite-topped bar in the salon, Mr. Eitel took customers out for cocktail cruises and junkets to Martha’s Vineyard. Drinks were always frosty, thanks to the on-board ice machine, which could churn out 600 pounds of ice a day.” [NYT]

Comments (9)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM

    Greg Michaels Falls For A Naked Short Selling Hoax Video

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 5, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    Six hundred pounds of ice per day??? Hey, we could use that boat!
    ~Capt. Sig Hanson

  3. 3
    Posted by Seaman Bodine II | October 5, 2009 at 7:43 PM

    Gay Gayer Gayest?
    (1) Matt Taibbi
    (2) Barack Obama
    (3) Seaman Bodine

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | October 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    Taibbi – go back to yahoo finance.
    - typical snarky DB douchebag

  5. 5
    Posted by Guest | October 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM

    So, why are drudge and other sites reporting about secret meetings and the dollar and commodities, like oil?

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM

    @5 first step- you need to stop getting your biz news from a nutbag like drudge.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    @5 try clicking the third link in write offs

  8. 8
    Posted by Anal_yst | October 6, 2009 at 12:56 AM

    @7
    What do NYC taxi medallions have to do with anything?

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 6, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    @8/Anal, was thinking the same thing, plus, the taxi medallion provides adecent income stream and imposes no storage costs. Unlike gold.
    Nice work in the Atlantic. It’s a losing battle on several fronts, though.

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