• 21 Oct 2009 at 6:12 PM

Write-Offs: 10.21.09

By Bess Levin

$$$ The good people of Bloomberg Help Desk [NYM]
$$$ Rebecca Jarvis Leaves CNBC [TVNewser]
$$$ Becky Quick Can Out-Party Carl Quintanilla [BI]
$$$ Extreme Makeover: Wall Street Edition [Cityfile]

Comments (17)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    Bye Bye BJ.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    Bloomberg helpdesk is da bomb. When you’re lonely call em’ up, anytime, and they’ll always make you feel better.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    Goldman’s trading floor is a circle jerk…………………….
    jon Winkelried, Goldman’s other co-president, had been walking the floors, trying to calm everyone’s nerves. “We could raise $5 billion in an hour if we wanted to,” he told a group of traders, as if to suggest that nothing was amiss. But just then, at one p.m., the market—and Goldman’s stock—suddenly turned around, with Goldman rising to $87 a share, and then $89. Traders raced through their screens trying to determine what had been responsible for the lift and discovered that the Financial Services Authority in the U.K. had announced a 30-day ban on short-selling 29 financial stocks, including Goldman Sachs’s.
    The squawk boxes on Goldman’s trading floor soon crackled to attention. A young trader found a recording of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the Internet and broadcast it over the speakers to commemorate the moment. About three dozen traders stood up from their desks, placed their hands over their hearts, and sang aloud, accompanied by rounds of high-fives and cheers.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 8:18 PM

    Goldman: Never in the history of mankind have so few owed so much to so many. Suck it, Lloyd.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM

    RJ looks like a cute Martian. Or a half-breed Grinch.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM

    blepharoplasty? blasphemy! those aren’t droopy eyelids, those are bedroom eyes.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    Carl Mantequilla – come mierda!

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    Like I said in the first post in the morning, and I have re-affirmed throughout today, cocaine is a hell of a drug.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 21, 2009 at 10:17 PM

    comments will fuck your shit up.
    -fuck you, thats my name

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | October 22, 2009 at 1:49 AM

    Bess, really hoping for pic of a horny manatee with Raj-Raj’s face photoshopped on it.
    -Mary “ate-the-little-lamb” Schapiro

  11. 11
    Posted by Joe Mac | October 22, 2009 at 7:14 AM

    Carl should leave as well, go work at “The View”.

  12. 12
    Posted by Dula D. Bravo | October 22, 2009 at 7:43 AM

    Fucking Quintanilla. That creep can roll, man.

  13. 13
    Posted by Don DeFore | October 22, 2009 at 7:48 AM

    Yeah but he’s a pervert, Dula.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | October 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM

    I’m the walrus?

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | October 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM

    Shut the fuck up, Donnie!

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | October 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    @15 Thank you. The DB commentariat does not disappoint.
    -14

  17. 17
    Posted by e_anthony58 | October 23, 2009 at 10:29 PM

    I miss Rebecca already. Is she on Twitter?

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