Vanilla Ice’s role in the housing crisis is finally revealed.

CDO Business To A Vanilla Ice Song And Called It “CDO Oh Baby” [BI]
Wall Street And The Financial Crisis: Anatomy Of A Financial Collapse [PDF]

Comments (34)

  1. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    Sushi spreadsheet + CDO rap = douchebag

    - AIG Quant

  2. Posted by derp | April 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    This is worse than the tsunami

  3. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    fo shnitzel my nizztle, rocky had way too much time on his hands. rapping about cdo’s? puh-lease. wasn’t his time better spent copying his a$$ on a photocopier? that song is dumb.

  4. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    The front of the t-shirt said, “I’m short your house.” The back said: “Word to your mutha.”

  5. Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    haters gonna hate – that toon is ill

    but i am impressed ricky is actually literate

  6. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Thankfully Citi’s email policies advised me not to make this mistake.

    -Citi 1st Year Analyst/Burgeoning Rapper

  7. Posted by A722494 | April 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    This has nothing to do with the article, but I’d like to point out that it is far too difficult to find pictures of Bess Levin online.

  8. Posted by Cool as MBS | April 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    Drop the zero and get with a CDO
    -Guy who has never seen Cool as Ice

  9. Posted by Robert Van Winkle, CFA | April 14, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    What it’s like…havin’ a roni.

  10. Posted by AmericanBandersnatch | April 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    Oh, the humanity.

  11. Posted by Shorty Subprime | April 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    Google, my friend.

    The beautiful Bess here:

    http://www.observer.com/2009/slideshow/121004/bess-levin

  12. Posted by Biggie | April 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM

    “And I’m the one who got shot…..!!!!!” – Notorious BIG

  13. Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    It gets crazy like Prozac…

  14. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    I taught Greg everything he knows.

    – Weird Al Yankovic

  15. Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Creepy.

  16. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    furiously beating it to the picture while imagining that face yelling at me about the worthless waste of life that I am.

  17. Posted by She Bangs! | April 14, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    I like it when Karita sings “tenor”: Ten or eleven miles from me!!

    -William Hung

  18. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    you’re amazingly worthless at google apparently: http://www.facebook.com/besslevin

  19. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM
  20. Posted by Max | April 14, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    I dunno, I kind of liked it.

    - Nacho Libre

  21. Posted by Shia | April 14, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    So that’s why it is called a vanilla bond.
    -KZI FI Quant Level 0 CFA

  22. Posted by Mgi | April 14, 2011 at 4:46 PM

    I’d pound that ass

  23. Posted by Bania | April 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    that’s gold jerry! gold!

  24. Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2011 at 5:14 PM

    Amazing rap, and so witty!

    - UBS MD

  25. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Bite your tongue. With a woman that beautiful, you don’t “pound that ass”. You make love to that ass.

  26. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    Lippman,

    You suck. All of our first year analysts are rappers.

    -GS

  27. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    Do you mean raptors?

  28. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    Sounds like a dream job in a dream company.

    -Burgeoning Citi 1st Year Analyst

  29. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    You’re doing it wrong.

  30. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM

    so i wonder if shaw’s was looking at his rapping ability or SAT scores when they hired him

  31. Posted by Guest | April 14, 2011 at 8:33 PM

    I’m pretty sure that’s her face.

    - I kid, I kid! I know it is.

    -Guy running for the exits

  32. Posted by Guestifer | April 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM

    Doesn’t anyone casually beat anymore?

  33. Posted by Guest | April 15, 2011 at 1:44 AM

    I’d hit it. Repeatedly. With pleasure.

  34. Posted by SRH | April 15, 2011 at 1:44 AM

    I’d put a ring on it.

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