“Life is such a fucking disaster,” a prominent New York hedge fund manager said recently. “We all live in some kind of world we create for ourselves. And I think that what happened is that built into that world were very enlarged expectations about what life was going to be. There’s been this sensation of excessive expectation that, frankly, became unsustainable.” He had just returned from his ranch in the wilderness of central Idaho. “I just like it because it’s massively low human density. It would be a place you could hole up in. But, gosh, I hope that doesn’t happen.” [NYO]
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- Use the Bloomberg command
NH BLG_DEALBREAKER <GO>
to access Dealbreaker
Eventually the pack will come for you. Watch Mad Max if you want to see what I mean
Coincidentally, there’s a town called Appaloosa in Idaho.
But, oh, the ewe density. You have to beat them away.
I can’t imagine balling out of control in Iowa. Can someone please advise?
In Soviet Russia, dense ewes beat you off.
Perhaps he should take his time in seclusion to digest the Twilight Saga and gain some perspective.
My Own Private (Equity) Idaho
-Guy who’s unimpressed by his poor attempt at being clever
No, he should try being unemployed and about to lose your apartment in August. Now that’s what you call a fucking disaster.
Timmy’s microcap short got squeezed?
low in human density
- nuff said
” In case you haven’t noticed – which you haven’t, ’cause from what I can tell, you don’t notice anything ever – we are not very functional when we’re high. “
That’s truly rich. You represent an industry that has lobbied for years and years for less regulation, you get it, and then you almost collapse capitalism itself by taking enormous risk, which for you works because you have get much of the upside and none of the downside. The US government has to engage in a massive systemic bailout to avoid collapse and chaos, and despite that, you continue to lobby against regulation, and only now, after the body politic is showing both its ignorance of economics and how loud it wants to trumpet it, disabling the government from engaging in further stimulus, which might not economically possible anyway, do you express concern about the “social fabric”, the fabric you’ve blissfully ignored for so long and have tried to avoid paying for as long as possible.
I’d call it cognitive dissonance, but that would suggest that you have even a remote ability to look at things in terms other than your self-interest.
@12 – No one cares. GFY.
I make it rain on them plains
- Apache tribe junior rainmaker
@12 How’s that feverish Manichean fantasyland you live in treating you?
@12 I’m with you,baby. Come the revolution we’ll be selling these guys for pets. Or meat.
@12 Saying all hedge funds are evil is like saying all people are evil because 0.1% of people are murderers. Recap: you are dumb.
@13 FTW
@16 revolution?? this is fake life right?…like im dreaming right now
these guys get grumpy when their $10M+ bonuses go away….boo f-ing hoo.
@15
mmm… manichean bass
The revolution will not be televised…actually that’s a lie it will be completely televised, great tits to boot.
Creating your own world to live in is the new killin’ it
@18 go back to sleep clownass
@12, is there any other way to look at things?
@4 You ball on the Eat Coast, you ball on the West Coast, the rates of HIV infection are much lower in between. Correlation or Causation? Please explain…
@4 all i know is that I’d rather be dead in NY than alive in Iowa
@26 spoken by a very young person
When did we start putting an ‘@’ before everything, it fuckin irritates me.
@12, you sound mentally disabled if not outright handicapped, examine your motives, and probably examine your puprose in life adn whehter or not you should just end it.
-guy who isn’t sure how the current lack of estate tax would affect your world of warcraft account’s value.
@28, and how about the fact that using “@” requires the same number of keystrokes as just saying “at”?
- Guy who likes to eschew and mock widely accepted new forms of communication and yet and also likes it when his signature is twice as long as his message
wow
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