• 25 Jan 2012 at 4:12 PM

David Einhorn: “I Have Quite A Lot To Say”

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…about all this. For starters:

- “This is as much like insider trading as soccer is like football”
- “The FSA has spent the last two years forcing square pegs into round holes”
- “This is like a traffic cop with a quota at the end of the month, with a miscalibrated radar gun”
- Greenlight has a recording of the call in question, which contains no evidence of insider trading

- Something about this being like televised poker
- “Greenlight has always been committed to the highest standards of professional conduct”
- GL choose to pay the fine rather than go through another year of politically-charged BS
- Thank you and good-night!

Comments (38)

  1. 1
    Posted by Bandersnatch | January 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM

    “The FSA has spent the last two years forcing square pegs into round holes”. Sounds like fun!
    -You know who from Patriarch

  2. 2
    Posted by Duncan | January 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    Was there a source for that stuff inside the quotation marks?

  3. 3
    Posted by investorcluzo | January 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    soccer is football, football is soccer!
    -A. Ventura

  4. 4
    Posted by BessLevin | January 25, 2012 at 4:30 PM

    This guy, David Einhorn? Runs Greenlight Capital? Currently giving a call we're listening to and mentioned here: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/01/greenlight-capital… ?

  5. 5
    Posted by Dr Dre | January 25, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    It's hard to talk with a d*ck in your mouth.

  6. 6
    Posted by Wall St. Dude | January 25, 2012 at 4:37 PM

    This…this… this is like putting ketchup on pasta and calling in spaghetti marinara

    It's like calling a slice of velveta, cheese.

    It's like insisting your last shot with a "foot wedge" was one stroke.

    And the fine? It's like your friends sister in law came over to use the bathroom and didn't flush.

  7. 7
    Posted by Bugs | January 25, 2012 at 4:46 PM

    Velveeta isn't a dairy product. Apart from that, no problems.

  8. 8
    Posted by Huésped | January 25, 2012 at 4:52 PM

    Not ringing any bells, sorry.

  9. 9
    Posted by RobertLChapmanJr | January 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    Bess I think you just fell into Duncan's honey trap of sweet'n'subtle-ish irony.

  10. 10
    Posted by Duncan | January 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    Nah, she just linked the wrong article up top.
    Matt didn't mention the call.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    uh…no. nice backpedaling on Duncan's behalf though!

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM

    Actually, she didn't and actually Matt did…or did you think"call at 4PM" referred t something else?

  13. 13
    Posted by Dyslexic Speedreader | January 25, 2012 at 5:04 PM

    Why don't we ever discuss Mr. Einhorn's hairpiece on this discussion board? Seriously, it's like YouTube's Teddy the Corn Eating Hedgehog fell asleep on top of his head. Seriously, somebody Photoshop that thing off of him, please.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    Hey, shit for brains? 1) She mentioned the call in her original post, which you could find by scrolling down the page. 2) If scrolling is too hard for you, you could also use that thing called logic you never got a handle on and deduce that when the headline is- David Einhorn: "I have quite a lot to say," that the other quotes will also be from, wait for it…David Einhorn.

  15. 15
    Posted by early_hominid | January 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM

    It's like the Shawshank Redemption but with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.

  16. 16
    Posted by VonSloneker | January 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM

    So…Dennis Miller resurfaces as a conference call script ghost writer. I'd recognize his formulaic similie based humor anywhere.

    - Koko

  17. 17
    Posted by Duncan | January 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM

    I'm very impressed by your keyboard testosterone, "guest".
    rawr! what are you, her wannabe boyfriend?

    I didn't ask who said it, I asked if she was quoting some other article.
    Because often, she does. And then she often puts a link to it.

  18. 18
    Posted by Board Guest | January 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    Seriously, what are you doing here? Seriously.

  19. 19
    Posted by Wall St. Dude | January 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    It's like Rocky 5…… but… well, it just like Rocky 5.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | January 25, 2012 at 5:23 PM

    Hmm, and, again your logic skills are lacking, since it wasn't that hard to figure out that if she said the call was happening, she would be listening to it and taking her own notes, as she often does.

  21. 21
    Posted by Guesty | January 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM

    ?

  22. 22
    Posted by Guest | January 25, 2012 at 5:39 PM

    STFU, both of you.

  23. 23
    Posted by Pedantic Guy | January 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    Duncan, are you perhaps a guy who happens to be from Delaware?

  24. 24
    Posted by Learned Doctor | January 25, 2012 at 5:54 PM

    Are you pulling my dick bro?

    -College student who adds it to to Macaroni & Cheese all the time

  25. 25
    Posted by Matt's Mom | January 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    “This is as much like insider trading as soccer is like football”….umm soccer is exactly like football if u live in the UK.

  26. 26
    Posted by Guest | January 25, 2012 at 7:25 PM

    – Jimbo G.

  27. 27
    Posted by Guest | January 26, 2012 at 8:21 AM

    Spot on on this dude as her wannabe BF though. He rants uncontrollably anytime someone give Bess a hard time and then denies that he has ever posted before. His name is always a lowercase "guest" (which I assume will change goingforward).

  28. 28
    Posted by Guest | January 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM

    Totally agree. This guy Einhorn uses way too many analogies.

    - Warren Buffett

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | January 26, 2012 at 9:39 AM

    Nevermind Guest! Please continue after I go get a marker and a junior trader.
    -Ping

  30. 30
    Posted by Richard Nixon | January 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM

    YOU ARE NOT A CROOK!

  31. 31
    Posted by Rest of the world | January 27, 2012 at 8:15 AM

    “This is as much like insider trading as soccer is like football”

    What the fuck is soccer?

  32. 32
    Posted by Kids, Stop it | January 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM

    You're emberassing us in front of Bess

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