• 05 Nov 2010 at 5:30 PM

Write-Offs: 11.05.10

$$$ RBS Pay Measure Rises Despite Slump [AP]

$$$ Hedge Fund Pay To Rise 5% This Year [FINalternatives]

$$$ Bank of America, Citi said to test iPhones for employees [Bloomberg]

$$$ Woman Utters Words Previously Never Recorded In Police Report [TSG]

$$$ Brown Brothers Harriman seeks “rain makers”

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Comments (20)

  1. Posted by Jason STATHAM. | November 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM

    words never uttered so attractively, wouldn’t you say now, BL?

  2. Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Stomach-turning. Need to go drink heavily now to get that image out of my mind.

  3. Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Stomach-turning. Need to go drink heavily now to get that image out of my mind.

  4. Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Stomach-turning. Need to go drink heavily now to get that image out of my mind.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Stomach-turning. Need to go drink heavily now to get that image out of my mind.

  6. Posted by Lewis Winthorpe III | November 5, 2010 at 10:33 PM

    Bess- phenominal cap to a very solid day. Go make someone buy you a gimlet immediately.

  7. Posted by Anonymous | November 5, 2010 at 10:44 PM

    Yep. True that.

  8. Posted by Guest | November 5, 2010 at 10:58 PM

    seconded. whole week was pretty awesome.

  9. Posted by Intellectual Masturbator | November 5, 2010 at 11:43 PM

    Love how they took pains to include the “strong vaginal odor” in the story, ergo the police report. I’m sure her ex-husband is a looker, too. Line ‘em up, barkeep.

    I would also like to add that custody banking is not the NKI.

  10. Posted by AIGRM | November 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    I went all the way to Brown Brothers Harriman to get a good charcoal grey business suit and they acted like I was an idiot or something!

    -AIG Risk Manager

  11. Posted by CGasbag | November 6, 2010 at 4:30 PM

    Hey Bess,

    A solid week with one exception – Chucky G is fabricating more information than normal as a way to promote yet another PATHETIC Book. I mean, how much more pathetic can one be than to have CNBC promote a book callled the SELLOUT and it can’t even come close to a SELL OUT. Once they fired his ass, his book went down like a Lewinsky on a Presidential Pecker. What’s it now – about 100,000 on Amazon. And now “Bought and Paid For” is soon to be renamed “UnBought, Unpaid For and Soon to be returned to the Publisher”.

    Which brings me to his latest effort as self promotion in the NY Post (Lord knows nobody watched FBN so he’s got to go somewhere to promote his book). Did you notice the absence of quotes and his statement that “no one goes on the record anymore”. Bullshit. All the other reports routinely site their sources, provide references and quotes. The simple fact of the matter is that the GasBag has no real sources. He makes all this shit up. And, that is why he is wrong 86% of the time according to well documented statistics.

    As someone recently posted: Gossiparino’s best writing was done with a can of spray paint on a wall in the Bronx. Amen to that brother.

    Other than that Bess-a great week.

  12. Posted by ExtraOrdinaryPopularDelusions | November 6, 2010 at 5:47 PM

    Someone give that woman Soros’s number.

  13. Posted by Guest | November 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    Oh dear.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327421/Cricket-tycoon-Allen-Stanford-beaten-jail-inmates-awaits-trial.html

    Bloodied and shackled: Controversial cricket tycoon Allen Stanford beaten up by jail inmates as he awaits trial

  14. Posted by KathyandHam | November 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM

    BBH . . . closing their institutional equity group years ago was the dumbest move they ever did since their founding in 1818

    —- mismanaged , mishandled

  15. Posted by tits | November 7, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    He looks so regal in those pics.

  16. Posted by guest | November 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM

    BBH really went to downhill…no i-banking, no asset mgmt, at this point I’m not sure what happens other than paper shuffling at that place

  17. Posted by DJ LIBOR | November 7, 2010 at 9:35 PM

    Actually, they do have a mezzanine fund. Just sayin’.

  18. Posted by xel | November 8, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    and by mezzanine they mean the area between the bed frame and a mattress

  19. Posted by Guest | November 8, 2010 at 10:10 AM

    Now this is a client who knows what he’s talking about. Brokers should be guided by this understanding:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303738504575568411913835550.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

    Citi Debt Funds Probed by SEC .

    “Mr. Johnston told client Robert Goldstein, president of Las Vegas Sands’ Venetian casino, of an offer from Citigroup to buy back his personal investment at what in his case would amount to a 72% loss. In an email to a Citigroup executive, Mr. Johnston described his client’s reaction: “1. Go f— yourself. 2. We’ll see you in court. 3. You’ll look good in stripes.” Mr. Goldstein confirmed investing in the fund but disputed the broker’s account of his reaction. He eventually accepted an offer from the bank to limit his losses, people familiar with the events said.”

  20. Posted by Chuck Krug | November 8, 2010 at 11:16 AM

    Anyone else gets an avert by iforex.com on this page? Looks bucketshoppy to me. Not good for dealbreaker’s name imo.

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