• 25 Jan 2010 at 5:48 PM

Write-Offs: 01.25.10

By Bess Levin

$$$ New York Forum: The New, More Focused Davos? [HuffingtonPost]
$$$ What Makes Banks Fail [TBM]
$$$ Bill Gates Supports Bank Fees [ABC News]
$$$ Katie Benner: The Fall Of A Hedge Fund Wunderkind [Fortune]
$$$ Minnesota Ponzi-Schemer Jailed for Refusing to Relinquish Submarine, Concert Tickets [NYM]
$$$ Amaranth’s Fish-Boy Engaged in Fraud, FERC Judge Says [Bloomberg]
$$$ The company’s dark-suited, bespectacled chief executive, Mark H. Bell, describes one of the Web sites, GetItOn.com, as a fast-growing new site that allows people to text search and “type in a sentence like, ‘I’m looking for people who ride motorcycles.’ ” Or, you know, ‘cock.’ [WSJ]
$$$ Jim Chanos: Actually, We’re Not Betting Against China [BI]

Comments (5)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    Bill Gates doesn't know anything about Wall Street, I wish he would stop commenting

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    I thought the Minn Ponzi schemer was Lenny D. I know LD refused to relinquish his submarine as well … but he hadn't eaten in a while and the salami smelled really good.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2010 at 5:42 PM

    At the sight of Dennis Kneale a billion collie asses clenched in terror then were silenced.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | January 26, 2010 at 8:08 AM

    God I miss her on CNBC. I'd nail her in front of my wife's lawyer…

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | January 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM

    motion sickness

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