• 28 Dec 2009 at 4:20 PM

Write-Offs: 12.28.09

$$$ James Grant Interview: Let The Good Times Roll [NYM]
$$$ Charlie Gasparino: New York Needs Wall Street [HuffPo]
$$$ JP Morgan may scrap £1.5bn London HQ plan over Labour’s attacks on City: “Jamie Dimon made the coded warning to Alistair Darling in an angry phone call after the Government revealed its 50pc super-tax on bonuses in the pre-Budget report. Although Mr Dimon did not explicitly threaten to can the 1.9m square foot Docklands development, he pointedly used it to demonstrate the bank’s commitment to London. A JP Morgan executive stressed: ‘There were no threats made on the call and we have made no decisions on people or buildings based on the super-tax announcement.’” [Telegraph]
$$$ Sex Diaries: The Divorced Trader Living Out His Fantasy Life [DI]

Comments (23)

  1. Posted by JDimon | December 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM

    That'll teach them

  2. Posted by guest | December 28, 2009 at 4:36 PM

    just because all of you are too pussy to say it i finally will nakedshort is a pussy and has totally ruined commenting on dealbreaker anal_yst stalker gfys we should be stalking the other loser asshole g'night

  3. Posted by guest | December 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM

    roidrage@3 uh no. NS is hilarious. HB Capital gear would be enough to love him on its own.

  4. Posted by guest | December 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM

    2=Naked Short.

  5. Posted by guest | December 28, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    @4 no
    -2

  6. Posted by guest | December 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM

    That's too bad.
    What kind of commentary would you rather have?
    -4

  7. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 4:49 AM

    this raj story is fuckin amazing

  8. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 5:33 AM

    fuckin amazin

  9. Posted by Anal_yst | December 29, 2009 at 5:40 AM

    Morning kiddies, the few of you actually in the office today

  10. Posted by pfluger | December 29, 2009 at 5:44 AM

    Gasbags apparently sees himself as a good-guy, who can take every side of an issue.
    He first refers to "greed merchants on Wall Street," then in the next sentence says its "fashionable to beat up on Wall Street," and then he criticizes Obama for spinning a "class warfare" story about Wall Street vs. Main Street. And then he says Patterson is being honest for recognizing the state's "unholy alliance" with Wall Street, and praises Patterson's "logic."
    All this from the author of a Main St. vs Wall Street docudrama. Rambling fool must have been struck by too many blows to the head, back in his boxing days in Rego Park….

  11. Posted by Inside the Buyside | December 29, 2009 at 5:53 AM

    Bess,
    Congratulations on the insurgency.
    In-between storming the barricades and remaking the town in ways I cannot fathom, please create a post for reader's to provide 2010 predictions on the following,
    1. Rates
    2. Growth
    3. Credit
    4. Equities
    5. Commodities
    6. Chazzy G.'s bench press max
    7. developed markets vs. emerging markets
    8. Glass Steagall
    9. geo-political Black Swan events
    10. the Druries
    Cheers,
    ItB

  12. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 5:54 AM

    I can splash the pot, venever the fack I vant!

  13. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM

    The Druries are back in the US. Can we put a heavy focus on them this week?

  14. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:13 AM

    I agree with @11
    -Not 11

  15. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:18 AM

    11- can we add the big bad dark pools and conniving high freq traders, too?

  16. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:22 AM

    You are all just jealous "smart trader" bashers. People were jealous of us at Enron, too. NBD.

  17. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    What is the work environment like at Dean Witter?

  18. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    Is Shazbot on vaca as well? If so, how can you tell?

  19. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:34 AM

    @17 Just watch the movie Boiler Room.

  20. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:36 AM

    @11 terrible post idea. leave the editorial to bess.

  21. Posted by pfluger | December 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM

    Hey guys, its me, Chaz! Did yous read my ass-kickin’ column in da fuckin’ Huffington Post??! Ya gotta read it.
    In da column, I reveal some-a-my finest thinking about da real reason dat dat cacasentenze Obama is fuckin’ demonizing all-a-yous greedy Wall Street bidonare! I even tie Governor Patterson, da Steamroller, Andy Cuomo and his dad into da column!!
    All-a-dose guys are friends-a-mine, btw, but I gotta cawl it like I fuckin see it! I’m a renowned financial journalist, and I got my fuckin’ professional standards of integrity, ya know. Dose fuckin’ politicians have no business demonizing yous guys like I do, and dare a bunch a fuckin’ hypocrites, except for da black guy -da real black guy if yous catch my drift….
    I love da Huffpo for lettin’ me transmit my thoughts directly to da fuckin’ people. (And is dat Arianna an allupato MILF, or what? What I’d give for a little bocchino action from dat broad.) Da people can get even more stories about yous Wall Street cacasodo if dey buy my book, now specially priced. Its worth da money.
    allupato adj. (familiar) hungry for sex, especially after a long period of celibacy.
    bidonare v.t. (vulgar) to cheat, to trick, to swindle.
    bocchino v.t. (vulgar) to perform fellatio.
    cacasentenze m./f. inv. one who likes to moralize, one who acts like he/she is very smart, a smart ass; (lit.): one who shits sentences.
    cacasodo m./f. inv. an arrogant person, someone who thinks his/her [feces] doesn't stink; (lit.): one who defecates hard (from the verb cacare, meaning "to [defecate]" and the adjective sodo, meaning "tough" or "hard."

  22. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 6:58 AM

    The "trader" is a 22 year old nerd gook from Wachovia who has a healthy supply of opium

  23. Posted by guest | December 29, 2009 at 7:04 AM

    @22 nope. there was a lengthy story about the nym diaries a few months ago. they're real.

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