Greece Braces for Strikes, Vote on New Austerity Plan (WSJ)
One poll released by privately owned SKAI television Friday, shows that 62% of Greeks expect social unrest in the country to rise. But the same poll shows that 78% of respondents think the austerity measures will be implemented nonetheless.
Singapore Plans Greenwich-Style Hedge Fund Home in Nepal Hill Neighborhood (Bloomberg)
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and JTC Corp. — the government agency developing and marketing the project in Nepal Hill — quietly asked hedge fund managers in January to visit the district’s so-called black-and-white bungalows, named for their white-washed walls and dark timber frames, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by Bloomberg News. “I’ve visited and think it’s a very interesting development and a great alternative to a traditional office,” said Michael Coleman. “You’re surrounded by greenery, have your own garden to enjoy and the area is rapidly developing.”
Supertax pulls in £2.5bn for UK Treasury (FT)
“Clearly there has been the kind of restraint the exchequer was looking for,” said Rob McIvor, spokesman for the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, which represents the securities industry.
Papandreou: ‘We Don’t Want to Be EU’s Lehman Brothers’
(DealBook)
The EU’s Jimmy Cayne would be okay though.
Soccer — Not Sovereign — Debt Crisis Hits Home (CNBC)
This is serious.
Oversight group: Citigroup should downsize itself (MarketWatch)
“If you break up, you won’t have as big a company to run and we will reduce systemic risk,” Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the congressional oversight panel told Pandit, arguing Citigroup is the poster child for “too big to fail” institutions whose collapse could damage the markets.
Feinberg: Criticism of Executive Pay Rules Is Just ‘Spin’ (CNBC)
As for the suggestion that people will go elsewhere to flee compensation rules, the Czar is “not buying it.”
Today’s level of fail is unrivaled. It even gives UBS a run for the money.
Bess, babe, hope you’re enjoying the free time and vacation days while these clowns fuck around.
SERVICE UNAVAILABLE
At first I was suspicious that it may be the case, but now I know. DB IT Department is outsourced to Greek firm where they’ve been on strike all day.
Not gonna lie, reading Opening Bell is more fun while drunk. Better than reading it hungover in the morning.
FUCK YES IT WORKS
@4 = chai wallah
Beth -
This really is epic fail. On an extraordinary level.
Cliff A.
Brilliant McDaddy gots to know.
If a train leaves tulsa at 1pm traveling 15mph and needs to travel 10,000 miles to NYC (very windy track), and another train leaves NYC at 2pm traveling 18mph and needs to travel 1000 miles to tulsa (not windy track)….will the second train arrive in tulsa before this dealbreaker page loads properly?
-AIG Quant
Haha Haha
Bess,
Do I have your attention now? You know what you need to do.
Bess- You should contact Clusterstock for tips on creating a workable blog.
I had something witty to say but by the time the page finished loading, I had fallen asleep and it was morning.
Bess,
Feel free to use my favorite line on your DB IT chump of choice. . .
Look what you did, you little JERK!
Uncle Frank
presented without comment: DEALBREAKER
-breaking media llc, editing dept. 3/5/10
dealbroken
Cluzo = Tax Chick
It took a while to figure out but the evidence is there people!
The IT people are pretty pathetic. I thought up about 10 technical things they screwed up that I’d be screaming at the idiots if I was in charge, but I’m not, so as long as it eventually gets actually fixed, I am willing to bottle up my comments (that are obviously only here to cover my repressed sexual rage, inferior social standing, mommy issues, and the horrible basement smell) and consider it a wash. It’s more fun to scream at Goldman and UBS, anyway.
-actual IT guy
@17 – is that the best you got? seriously, if I were tax chick, don’t you think I would give myself more props? you need to go back to the posts. she (he?) clearly has a different agenda which has yet to include me.
I can do your taxes AND give you happy endings.
@11 ftw.
@20… AND give you yellow fever.
Hey guess what?
I do believe…
There is no double posting.
…making fake double posting the new killing it.
Dammit I had a shitload of good links ready friday
The tech people who run Breaking Media are pathetic. Bess is one of the best writers on the web and they are fucking up her shit.
The only thing that’s gotten me through these epic fails of the last few weeks is the idea of BL ripping the IT clowns a new asshole on a daily basis.
@13 DB w/ no service is better than Clusterstock any day of the week…
Chat roulette > Dealbreaker
truly pathetic the amount of/ostensible prestigious-ness of the publication that will rip off our DB:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07pubed.html
@trojan- leave it to you to leave a fag-a-licious comment, as usual.
Bess needs to quit these jokers asap. I’m sure she’d be able to raise the seed capital in no time.
When Biff A. can turn up and tell Bess that Dealbreaker has an epic fail then we know a new ‘killing it’ is upon us.
@14
http://www.medicinenet.com/caffeine_tablets-oral/article.htm
@36. Don’t be a pussy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
worst website ever…
@38 that you wake up and leave comments on on a Sunday morning.
Here’s a new challenge for DB IT: clicking a link opens a new window instead of direction your diminishing audience to competitor websites.
Hopefully we will see this change take place by 2011.
I have just awoken from an 8 day coma here in the ER and the doctors don’t want me getting too excited. My girlfriend smuggled in a laptop so I wanted to check in and see if I missed anything on Dealbreaker. The site appears to have changed a bit.
Maybe DB’s being hacked by the Chinese military…
@ 38, 40
If you are so convinced the site is crap, what the hell are you doing here??! Go back to your nests tools.
and especially @40: no need for that tone. At a difficult time like this, Bess needs our moral support.
Dealbreaker
262 Mott Street, Suite 102A
New York, New York 10012
Dear Investors:
This has been a period of unparalleled upheavals in the financial IT blogging space…
@43 – I was* convinced the server was crap, not the content (i.e. Bess’s content) which is the real reason we are all here, isn’t it? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. In your case, don’t S the D(B) that feeds you.
@44 I hear you’re down 95% YTD. Sucks.
On a trip to India, to beat down the offshore ‘team,’ I had a stunning curry in Mysore. The curry must have been made from snake because shortly afterward I saw a mongoose which I swear was following me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8547327.stm
Mongooses: The source of all DB’s IT problems, oh, and the fact that Beth is a filthy animal liar.
Bess,
Obviously your IT guys are not getting the message. Perhaps you should speak to them in a language they understand. Try this “Agar yeh website phir se nahin chalegi, to main mera pair tumhare gaand mein itni door ghusa doongi ke tumhare mooh mein boot polish ki boo ayegi”.
Please report on the results.
@48 I, for one, would find that kinky coming from BL.
-Vik
@48, your tongue works prettier than an untouchable whore’s!
~Pradish Patel
3rd shift, inbound call center
Mighty Putty Sales
Bess should just start her own site, I’m sure she could easily raise the capital from her sources.
awesome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07pubed.html
http://www.30chickflics.com
NS – this one is for you. we’re not alone in the universe.
@51 – Bess probably has a multi-year, multi-million $ contract with few outs and plenty of non-compete language. What are you going to do for 4 to 6 months as she tends her garden? What if Equity Private comes back?
What Bess needs to do is to get canned ala George Costanza (“now that guy got *canned*”). Bess, think 10-gimlet lunches followed by painting the BM offices with said lunch would do it? Maybe an incident during the outing to Beamers?
@55 agreed. and imagine the fun it could be to watch…
OGRE HATES NERDS
@VS nice. Wish I saw that last night could have checked in out instead of being forced to watch E! Live at the Red Carpet