KipEsquire

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    Posted 2011-03-09 22:19:00 on Aspiring Hedge Fund Manager Charged With Changing High School Kids’ Grades For Cash

    ‎"I asked for a hedge fund, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?"

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    Posted 2010-05-12 11:03:03 on How Goldman Trainees Used to Learn About Client Service

    So the lesson is that one should never assume that a billionaire client has a phone, or an office with a phone, or an assistant with a phone?

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    Posted 2008-10-31 17:53:34 on I Don’t Even Know What The Hell To Title This

    All that clip needs is Edward G. Robinson kvetching at Charlton Heston.

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    Posted 2008-08-14 10:52:38 on How To Avoid Hedge Fund Managers

    How many restaurants can you water ski behind?!? How much is enough?!?

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    Posted 2008-07-30 14:53:10 on Lack of Irish Luck for Bennigan’s

    @10: "The best thing about Times Square is that you see things you would never see at home ... oh look, a Red Lobster!" --"Title of Show"

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    Posted 2007-01-09 15:50:35 on Bob Nardelli: Doing the Math

    "Home Depot stock fell from $43 to $41 under his Nardelli's tenure, a 21 percent drop when calculated for inflation." I don't have my HP12c handy, but you would need a pretty intense inflation rate to go from a 4.6% drop nominal to a 21% drop inflation-adjusted in just six years. Especially factoring in HD's 2.3% dividend yield. Or did they mean relative to the market? But even that would be a bogus number.

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    Posted 2007-01-09 14:59:27 on James Chanos: Genius Short-Seller or Politically Well-Connected? Or Is There A Difference?

    This is in no way allergic to your "political connections" thesis, but it's a myth that the casino operators were the ones pushing the online gambling ban. They couldn't care less. The Bellagio and partypoker-dot-net are neither substitutes nor complements. It was the state governments seeking to protect their lotteries, pure and simple.