Maybe not sounding so crazy anymore?
And the one way this thing can apparently be saved (think ‘e’).
The Alpha-males running America are textbook examples of the Oedipus complex in action. Men? No, inside they’re still little boys who secretly want to win mommy’s favor by knocking off big daddy. Basic psychology, except they’re overdosing the real world with too much edgy testosterone … aggressive, arrogant, narcissistic … bullies on the playground overcompensating for an inferiority complex … they love games, fights, contests, winning, deals, risks, wars, anything to prove they’re king-of-the-hill … like owning truckloads of money, enough for several lifetimes … think Liar’s Poker, they play for bragging rights, to tell “the guys” how they beat “the other guys” on the playing field … but psychologically they really are just little boys in big-boy costumes playing “grown-up” … especially the new breed of Wall Street traders gambling in history’s greatest casino, the $700 trillion global shadow banking system for derivatives…America is a nation ruled by Alpha-males with a death wish, yet blind to their fatal self-destructive flaw.
Can we dodge our fate? Redirect the “guy thing?” America is ruled by high-testosterone Marsian, Alpha-male little boys motivated by a killer instinct and an Oedipus complex, trapped in a myopic left-brain culture. The only way to avoid America’s fate would be a shocking paradigm shift creating a new consciousness that thrusts more right-brain thinkers — more women — into leadership roles. But will it happen in time? Long odds.
Women Can Save Wall Street From The End [MarketWtch]
makes financial mkts and their participants sound WAY more interesting than they actually are
Reality Check Guy
….and another slow day at Dealbreaker Towers
Someone needs to ice this bro.
I don’t see how this story is relevant to what time everyone will be showing up to Minetta’s and what they’ll be wearing.
Women : Finance = Clubbing Baby seals : PETA
Spoken like a total loser
So finance should be controlled by individuals who PMS on a regular basis…I guess VIX would increase during a certain period of the month.
Fucking your own mother is the new killin’ it
I’ll be at Minetta’s around 1pm. Black hair, 5’11″, wearing pants and a shirt. Feel free to kick me in the balls, so I know its you.
@2 I wish we could take credit for it being only a slow day at the DBT’s but alas– and I’m not sure how you couldn’t have known this, since you seem to be pretty up on shit– the end of July/August is historically A TIME OF SLOW/NO NEWS. On the bright side it seems to coincide with a slowdown in your work schedule, hence the time to leave not one but two comment on this post including (!) one pointing out that which is obvious to most people and not just geniuses like yourself.
This article lays out some great points, maybe the BSDs at UBS should get rid of the current help and start recruiting from some less traditional applicant pools, such as local culinary hotspots with the freshest ingredients this side of Manhattan.
wating for the soviet russia comment…
that guy makes my day
Can women work on Wall St? Won’t they just bleed all over the financial markets?
anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil, doesn’t f**king have any
A woman in finance is like a donkey doing calculus
In Soviet Russia, mommy spanks big daddy
Are we supposed to sniff the markers?
In Soviet Russia, market PMS’ you
@10 BL: I for one really appreciate all you do to help me make it through the day. To show how much I appreciate it I’ll be at Minetta’s tonight wearing a bright pink tshirt with the words “I Love Bess Levin, and think she is uber sensy” on it. Please come up to me and punch me in the face (I’m into that kind of thing) and then let me buy you a drink (gimlet? Long Island?) and have a nice chat about quirky British comedy and gossip about Lisa Marie Falcone’s sense of “style.”
the problem with women is you can hire only one, the moment you hire a second they start scratching each others face
Feats of gastronomical fortitude would speed the week up.
-not an anal_yst but certainly tried it
@19: FYI…..A “gimlet” is also a carpenter’s tool known as a “screw starter”. To wit:
A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt’s Architecture (1859) as “a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other”.[1]
A gimlet is always a small tool. A similar tool of larger size is called an auger. The cutting action of the gimlet is slightly different from an auger, however, as the end of the screw, and so the initial hole it makes, is smaller; the cutting edges pare away the wood which is moved out by the spiral sides, falling out through the entry hole. This also pulls the gimlet further into the hole as it is turned; unlike a bradawl, pressure is not required once the tip has been drawn in.
The name “gimlet” comes from the Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, later guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-French “wimble”, a variation of “guimble”, from the Middle Low German wiemel, cf. the Scandinavian wammie, to bore or twist; the modern French is gibelet. [2]
So what we really need are more Erin Callans and Zoe Cruz-Sacos, and there won’t be any more crashes?
God love them, but women in finance – esp in senior roles – really make a case for why the division of labour has successfully existed for thousands of years and really needs to come back in vogue.
My dream: to piss off Bess to the point of a 100-word pasting. Because some attention is better than no attention!
@22, Thanks for the update, I never knew that
-19, aka a guy who knows more about Bess Levin’s drink preferences than he does about carpentry tools and doesn’t think that is something that should prompt him to examine his motives.
Obviously you boys don’t know nothin from nothin (advancing the point) there are now a gagillion ways to avoid goin on the rag more than once a quarter or not at all including shots and pills (and therefore avoiding PM anything. and no, don’t mean tequila shots..of course, that’s only if you don’t smoke, cigs). Back me up Ms Bess
I’ve always said it, they should bring some hookers to the office during slow markets. Get trigger happy when I am bored. Probably trying to overcompensate.
Anal_yst, meet me at Minetta’s. I will be the guying eating something delicious. Take something off my plate so I know its you, and then punch me in the face.
I have to call bullshit on that whole quote taken from the Marketwatch article because it was originally part of the script assigned to William Shatner as Captain Kirk in episode 22, “Traders of Ballenon Nine” back in 1967.
Oedipal accusations aside, was any of that suppose to be an insult?
“too much edgy testosterone … aggressive, arrogant, narcissistic … bullies on the playground overcompensating for an inferiority complex … they love games, fights, contests, winning, deals, risks, wars, anything to prove they’re king-of-the-hill … like owning truckloads of money, enough for several lifetimes … think Liar’s Poker, they play for bragging rights, to tell “the guys” how they beat “the other guys” on the playing field … ”
I suspect this was meant as an indictment, but it certainly sounds like a compliment…
@27 Wrong. Women still PMS even if they don’t get the MS. That’s how I ended up cornering the cocoa market.
…but women aren’t as good at math, Larry Summers said so, so how can they work on Wall Street?
@33
Is this a trick question? You have to be good at math?
-Lehman Quant
someone who bleeds for seven days and does not die makes for a real evil banker – just sayin’
I generally make my decisions based on which way It moved. Is that wrong?
@ 33- That doesn’t apply to all women. Those that are good at math, can work on wall st.
Regarding PMS, men are just as moody.
Girls in finance usually suk good cok.
@33 The Japanese have always allowed women to display their unique strenghts without letting their weaknesses become an obstacle to their development.
We are hiring. Btw, anybody here knows where to buy nice vase pots around Grand Central?
fuck bitches make money
Oedipus Complex >>> Electra Complex
@40 – Can you clarify as to whether you mean:
1) Fuck bitches. Make Money.
or
2) Fuck, bitches make money.
Thanks.
@37, I’m hungry. Make me a sandwich.
But at the end of Oedipus rex doesn’t the son gouge out his eyes and kill himself? So… traders should be gouging out their eyes and hanging themselves after receiving their bonuses… and yeah, that doesn’t work. Logic fail.
Can someone shed some light on the running Minetta’s joke? Maybe there should be a DB glossary so people can get caught up.
- Guy who needs to get caught up
@38- Be careful not to find a girl in finance that thinks she is somehow “above” doing said deed
@45 – I’ll explain it to you if you meet me at Minetta’s later. I’ll be the guy sitting in the corner crying to myself. I also look like JD’s umbrella holder. Punch me in the face so I know it’s you.
@42 We’ve been screwing old ladies for generations…
14″ of punishing hard meat in my pants says women can’t
So I’m guessing the guy took psych101 but slept through it, at best…
Also, no secretary/ass posts yet? Sigh…
@50
My fucking MD has an ass in her cock over in the conference room, alright? I’m sorry if my thoughts aren’t with the pitch book of the deal we’re presenting tomorrow, OK?
@50 relevant only if the secretary is also your mother?
Meet me at Minetta’s, Anal_yst. I will be the guy in the corner pounding his secretary in the ass. Tickle my balls so I know its you and then you can punch my secretary in the face.
to paraphrase michael lewis, this crisis was the first in which numerous women were in powerful positions… and it was the worst since the great depression. End thought.
-Guy who likes to end thoughts by saying end thought.
@ 43- WOuld love to, not.
-37
@ 44- Yes, he does.
I enjoyed your post. Haven’t thought about that book since high school.
@42/CL I read it as “‘fuck-bitches’ make money,” but maybe that says more about me than it does about 40.
- not 40
Judging by the complete lack of humor and creativity, @37/55 is a woman, without a doubt.
Probably a witch as well.
Also seems like she’s PMSing.
STAR AGREES
Bess, this article is sexist. Women would be just as prone to taking on debt they could only afford to pay back with more debt…man, woman, American, European…if anything, women should be blamed for nursing all greedy individuals for nine months and subsequently becoming unattractive.
interesting enough the only bank not to fail in Iceland was run by women. they didn’t take on unnecessary risk and lived to tell about.
the Author has a point
@20 You DO have a point…pus*y dont like pus*y was what one of my FX boys used to say
@32-never been the case w/depo and a couple brands are supposed to be great that way (but i smoke, cigs too)
This entire wall street thing could be solved by Rebellion capital in like, a day. Personality + good looks is what got us into this mess.
@51, Are you in Soviet Russia? Because in Soviet Russia Ass pounds Cock. Also pounding your aritificial intelligence in the ass is the new pounding your secretary in the ass i.e. the new killing it.
I have a belly button
So… you’re saying we need women to run our computers?
-Rebellion Research Director
There is no more Soviet Russia. Its just Russia. Way to flunk out of 7th grade world history, idiots.
@64 rent Boogie Nights, pretty please.
In Soviet Russia, world history flunks you
@67 pms today?
@68, haven’t seen it in a while, and I hate missing inside jokes so I’m netflixing it right now. @67, see 69. On a totally unrelated note where has the joke briefer gone? Comments such as 67 make me yearn for his insightful dissection and analysis of various Dealbreaker gags.
-64
@67
At the peak of Smirnoff’s celebrity in the mid-1980s, he did not say “Soviet Russia” — he said simply “Russia”, as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic had existed since 1917, still existed, and showed no signs of imminent collapse. Smirnoff may have added the Soviet qualifier after the fall of the USSR to specify that he was referring to the communist regime and not the present state, although the phrase “Soviet Russia” has seen occasional use in the West since the beginning of the Soviet Union.
http://longorshortcapital.com/pomegranate-capital-thinks-women-can-run-money-better-is-wrong.htm
@67
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversal
CFA > Men > Women > MBA
@67 – You must work for UBS, only they are this stupid.
-Primerica ProQuant
“smug doesn’t balance a spreadsheet”
Hey you guys stop ganging up on comment number 67, STAR was actually able to get on the interwebz all by itself and post a comment without the usual “Sccrrt zoop deeet *%*&^” problems, be supportive you big meanies.
-Rebellion Research
@ 58- Yes, I’m female. A witch, depends who you ask. And no I don’t suffer from PMS.
37/55
anyone here an alpha male? Liar? Poker? just wonderin
@79,55,37
Shut your pie hole. I’m still hungry, where’s the sandwich?
-43
A woman in finance is like a guy with a chode making a porn flick. Just doesn’t rub the right way.
That article… is so. Poorly (written). Jesus… christ.
@61 So we need to hire more Icelandic chicks in finance? I’m down with that.
-Guy who sees nothing wrong with increasing the number of Nordic blondes in NYC
@79 Hot flashes ?
@ 20, 62
Every female I ever worked with under a fem manager complained she talked to/treated the men different from the women.
- Guy who likes to state the obvious
woman in finance/ wall street are no better then the men n if u think otherwise ur a fool who has never been part of that game
@87 – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA FTW
BESS L seeks out those type of men
for great articles and sleep in breakfasts
in bed. ;)
a women smart/testosterone filled enough to work/be successful on wall st would has figured out she should just marry a wall streeter, steal all their money and have some fun on the side. who wouldnt.
Bess: What IS your drink of choice?
Hoping for bourbon rocks, guessing gimlet. Not a high-conviction pick though.
you dont need to be that good at math to work on wall st. come on guys – thats not a rocket science job. and women are even better than men, because they are flexible – a quality that is essential on wall str, and something that men lack. they are egos are simply too big.
women may not be as good at bonding with everyone, but once 2 women bond, the relationship is more powerful than that between men
@92
Us guys are loners, we do not truly “bond” with more than 1-3 friends in our lifetime, including wife. Day to day we can get along, go out, and joke with everyone in our vicinity and not hold obsessive grudges (read: are flexible) – unlike women. Perhaps you are misreading things or I am falling for a troll post.
in a particular, tundra-infested region of the world at a particular time in history, women bond you