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    Posted 2008-09-24 14:49:39 on Dealbreaker Swag

    You need better designers. I'm not going to walk around looking like a bad photoshop.

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    Posted 2008-09-19 20:14:14 on So Long To All That

    Is it just me, or is Carney trying to write like Raymond Chandler?

  3. 3
    Posted 2008-09-17 11:45:15 on No Wonder They Went Under

    @1, I had no idea that "$55,000 pro-rated, paid bi-weekly" meant the same thing as "$55,000, bi-weekly." It is pretty cool to find out that the word 'pro-rated' is just, uh, decorative or something.

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    Posted 2008-07-02 15:37:14 on Buffett Lunch Goes For Over 2 Million, Non-Sequitur Sex Analogies On The House

    3:09 I thought Buffett was an early pro-choice guy. Didn't Munger write an amicus in Roe v. Wade?

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    Posted 2008-07-02 10:31:29 on Jeff Epstein’s Lucrative And Mysterious Profession

    WSJ: "BREAKING NEWS: Fugitive financier Samuel Israel has been arrested, CNBC reports. " How are you not covering this?

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    Posted 2008-03-13 21:54:30 on Write-Offs: 03.13.08

    Brian Carney on Gary Gygax: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120486500666119109.html "But at the risk of sounding like a geek and a curmudgeon at once, in my day we did it the old-fashioned way. In all likelihood we were in somebody's basement, sitting around a table with our dice at the ready and our character sheets in front of us. My brother John was the dungeon master, and he was a good one, too." Somehow, Carney has never disclosed that he was a Dungeon Master and "a good one, too."

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    Posted 2008-03-10 14:51:35 on Eliot Spitz’or Swallow

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102008/news/regionalnews/spitzer_linked_to_prostitution_ring__rep_101299.htm "The johns paid as much as $50,000 for a weekend with a prostitute and had the option of purchasing a "buy out" of their favorite girls, which allowed them to book trysts directly with the hookers, Manhattan federal prosecutors said." Convertible bondage?

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    Posted 2008-03-05 18:04:58 on Jesse Jackson Stalks The Visa IPO

    Does anybody remember/know about the ethnic banks of the 60's and 70's. I've read that they were very popular (Warren Buffett invested in one) but they crashed and burned after massive fraud. Cathay Bank is still rock-solid, though. Maybe that's what Reverend JJ has in mind.

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    Posted 2008-03-03 15:36:57 on Michelle Obama Urges The Poors To Stay That Way By Avoiding College And Corporate America

    From the National Review: the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin From Dealbreaker: the white shoe Chicago law-firm Sidley & Austin Who is that comma running from?

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    Posted 2008-02-27 15:16:13 on On Munis, Ratings And Contrarianism

    Anal: I logged in to ask why nobody is doing just that. If this discrepancy really existed, one would expect every single non-wrapped, non-AAA muni to be bought up by arbs.

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    Posted 2008-02-22 18:11:16 on Write-Offs: 2.22.08

    What happened to the entry on Zwirn? http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=d2c448eb4d0ffbf13349bcc9e3b3bc69 http://dealbreaker.com/2008/02/after_the_jump_the_letter.php Nada.

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    Posted 2008-02-20 16:54:05 on How Did KKR Financial Become A Buyout Loan SIV?

    It's hard to get worked up about this when their stock is down less than 2% for the day. If KFN made such huge, leveraged bets in awful investments, why are the investors who are last in line for a liquidation only down by half for the year? Are the bondholders getting screwed? Is the stock market insanely optimistic? Or is this whole thing overblown?