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Do Wall Street Executives "Defecate In Their Pants" When Andrew Ross Sorkin Calls Them
Nov 19, 2009, 3:02pm
Posted by Bess Levin
In the New York magazine profile earlier this month, Andrew Ross Sorkin said that one of the ways he's able to land big sources is by not being "adversarial or coming to the table with an ax to grind." The...
Wells Fargo Settles ARS Debacle
Nov 18, 2009, 10:28am
Posted by Jon Shazar
Wells Fargo has become the latest firm to offer a belated "my bad" on auction-rate securities. The bank's Wells Fargo Investments today agreed to repay clients who bought the unfortunate securities some $1.3 billion. It's also paying an additional "I'm...
Charlie Gasparino And Andrew Ross Sorkin Make Nice, Charlie And Lloyd Blankfein Not So Much
Nov 17, 2009, 11:35am
Posted by Bess Levin
So Charlie Gasparino and Ken Feinberg had a 20 martini dinner last night, which came after Chaz's keynote address at the Directorship 100. Gaspo told a captive audience that the Compensation Cop "has Wall Street by the stugats." Before all...
Sorkin's Book May Beat Gasparino's In Instances of "F*ck" Per Page But It Falls Short In Self-Love
Nov 16, 2009, 12:39pm
Posted by Bess Levin
As you may have heard, the numbers have been crunched and to some people's surprise, Andrew Sorkin's book, Too Big To Fail, bests Charlie Gasparino's When Mooks Fail for the number of times the word 'fuck' is mentioned, overall and...
How Does Andrew Ross Sorkin Reel In His Sources?
Nov 09, 2009, 11:01am
Posted by Bess Levin
The big New York profile on Times Boy Andrew Ross Sorkin is out today. Gabe Sherman tells us all about the jealousy the DealBook editor has inspired among his colleagues, what with his big (for a journalist) paycheck, his fame,...
ARS: LIRR, NJ Transit Riders Must Not Be Deprived Of Their Rights
Nov 03, 2009, 1:19pm
Posted by Bess Levin
From the mailbag: Spotted Andrew Ross Sorkin at a bookstore in Penn Station berating a young clerk for not carrying more copies of his book, "Too Big To Fail." He actually said quite loudly: "Dude, you need to carry...
Meredith Whitney Not Fan of Dollar Dominatrix Nickname, John Mack "Not Retiring" But Possibly Starring In Own Biopic
Oct 21, 2009, 11:14am
Posted by Dealbreaker
I told her that it was intended to be a compliment à la you're the Money Honey but powerful and in leather and carrying a whip but I don't think it helped much. MDubs did concede, however, that "it could...
Charlie Gasparino Knows If Lloyd Blankfein Were Ever Mad At Him It Must've Been For A Good Reason
Oct 06, 2009, 5:22pm
Posted by Bess Levin
So! As previously mentioned, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his new book that at one point last September, Lloyd Blankfein was so "disgusted with what he believed was CNBC's Charlie Gasparino's 'rumor-mongering'" that he turned the TV off in his...
Andrew Ross Sorkin Offers Heartfelt Fake Apology For Union Comments
Jun 04, 2009, 1:32pm
Posted by Greg Michaels
We haven't seen the video of the MSNBC interview when Sorkin had some less than flattering things to say about the unions, but his words of contrition should tug on the heart strings of union employees everywhere. I did not...
The Information War: The Deal Editor Versus New York Times Wonder Boy
Jul 08, 2008, 5:03pm
Posted by John Carney
Andrew Ross Sorkin's call for a regulatory crack down on those spreading rumors was probably a big hit in the corner offices of Wall Street firms. But it's getting a much frostier reception from some of his fellow scribes. Earlier...
Rumor Mongering About the Short Selling Conspiracy
Jul 08, 2008, 4:21pm
Posted by John Carney
Sorkin is on Team Jamie. In his weekly column in the Times business section, Andrew Ross Sorkin sounds the alarm against the rumor-mongers attacked by JP Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon last night. But it's not just spreading rumors...
