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Entry: What's Next? Apple Pie?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 03, 2009 10:39AM
"The taint of Blagojevich" - stopped reading there.
Entry: RBS Greenwich Capital Analyst Regurgitates Victory
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 03, 2009 7:40PM
This guy set himself on doing it in an hour when all of the other pussies couldn't do it in a day. Nice try but too ambitious - in a 14 hour day he probably would have done it.
Obviously there is a lack of incentive (because, as we have all learned, all failure can be explained by a lack of incentive) for someone to complete the vending machine challenge (all items/one day). I will send DealBreaker $0.99 for the first person to do it and document it. Hey, there are gazillions of readers so don't call me cheap; especially before you pony up.
Entry: What Should Bernie Madoff's Dealbreaker Column Be About?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 20, 2009 8:16PM
A column called, "You call that ballin'?" in which he mocks various excesses not for their egregiousness but for their small potatoes nature. For each example he points out a similar but much larger one accomplished by himself (and of course how he accomplished it with stolen money people begged him to take and invest).
Entry: What Ever Happened With That Whole AIG Bonus Thing Anyhow?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 22, 2009 8:10PM
"Steven Davidoff sums it up for us in "We Fought AIG and AIG Won," which amuses us to no end because it implies that AIG and "The Law" are synonymous- though we doubt Davidoff caught the overt cheer for sanctity of contract implicit in his poorly chosen title."
Absolutely brilliant. They fought the rule of law and the rule of law won. I can't help but hear The Clash's version of the song and enjoy the further irony of a quasi-socialist band potentially inspiring the quote.
Also "How'd you like to be one of the AIG people who bothered to return your bonus now?" - no balls, no bonus.
Entry: Write-Offs: 04.29.09
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 29, 2009 9:15PM
Even if 10-1 won't make it work for him he still has the wall vaginas.
Entry: Write-Offs: 05.05.09
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 05, 2009 10:53PM
With the top 1% of income earners already paying as much as the bottom 95% in the U.S. you can best believe that people will get creative now that top income tax rates are being raised. With NY implementing a 10% income tax on top of the 40% federal rate, I suspect many will move to low or no tax states. For example, Wyoming has no income tax and the highest per capita income county in the country (see http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/lapi_newsrelease.htm). I wonder why.
Entry: Love Gov Injects A Little Something In Our Morning
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 07, 2009 10:10AM
Hooker fucker and persecuter of other hooker fuckers pretty much says it all.
Entry: Even Sewage Will Get You In Trouble These Days
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 08, 2009 10:57AM
Now how long is it going to take for Alabama to get indoor plumbing?
Entry: Write-Offs: 05.15.09
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 15, 2009 7:07PM
Re Princeton: I went there as a grad student and 1) no men that I knew liked the fact that the grad school was about 65% male and 2) The Nassau Inn was not a place that undergrads (or grad students) went to - more like out of town professors, business people, and parents. Note bene: that national 21 drinking age happened around 1980 and is something actually worth complaining about on behalf of young-uns.
It's breaking this old guy's heart that "younger class secretaries are almost entirely women", despite how it seems like he would find secretary a fitting role for women. I guess back in his day the men were men and the women were too.
Entry: Credit Is What Credit Does
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 19, 2009 9:01PM
I know one person who will probably be troubled by the lack of "teaser rates". He would get offers of $X (typically $500-1000) in cash from credit cards without interest for some time, invest it, and promptly pay it off right before the interest kicked in (typically 6 months or so). It was free money and he was cheap enough to spend the time on the book keeping on many accounts.
An obvious approach for the card companies would be to try and ding the card owners who pay up every month if they are less able to screw the financially illiterate. I doubt this will happen because they still make a lot of money from merchant fees off of big spenders who don't carry a balance and people with cash can just use a debit card or currency.
Entry: Compensation Crackdown '09: Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 26, 2009 11:04AM
So their incentives lead to piling up cash and not lending. And they're a non-profit. Yea, that's a model that will fix everything.
Entry: We Are Not Changing The Rules
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 26, 2009 8:33PM
Also, no personal or corporate income tax in Nevada.
Entry: Who's In The Mood To Be Berated By Congress?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
May 29, 2009 8:06PM
I would take the job at the TARP mandated salary cap of $0.5M. However, I have a few conditions:
1) Any questions from Congress will be answered by my government relations adviser Dr. Ron Paul. My management of the "firm" may or may not seek his advice.
2) If Greenburg says anything about the firm I get to fight him in a UFC style cage match.
3) Any unsubstantiated accusations (e.g. that I have sex with Japanese prostitutes and snort coke off their asses) results in my being given carte blanche to do the very same thing since I've already been tried in the court of public opinion.
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Jun 22, 2009 8:22PM
Before starting a career take a long hard look at those who have done it. Think about whether you want to end up like them because odds are you will.
Entry: Which Of Alan Greenspan's More Quotable Quotes Will Bite Him In The Ass On The Big Screen?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Jul 21, 2009 7:15PM
Rand used to call him "the undertaker" so I vote for Oliver Stone bringing the nuttiness (in typical fashion) via a sex with the dead scene.
Entry: Paul Tudor Jones Giveth And Taketh Away (Updated)
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Jul 28, 2009 2:40PM
6: Yea, by the standards of Wall Street he didn't come off half bad. It even went into his commitment to charity work. Maybe he was sensitive about the drinking Bud and trading in the pre-dawn scene.
Entry: What Kind Of Package Is A Bernie Madoff Package?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Aug 13, 2009 12:13PM
36: Yea, 28 is right!
Entry: Maxine Is Off And Running
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Aug 24, 2009 10:46AM
That she is surprised about how paper-based medical records continue to be shows how little she knows about the business. Yet people like her are going to run healthcare?!?
Entry: Ken Lewis Sets The Standard Once Again
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Oct 23, 2009 8:26PM
Just to get it out of the way - he looks quite regal in that pic.
I suspect that he will take great compfort from his big buy of BAC back when it was $4. He's laughing all the way away from the bank.
Entry: Dealbreaker Afterdark: Which Of These Kids Is Doing His Own Thing?
posted by Joseph di Jersey City
Apr 02, 2009 8:45PM
"Damn it feels good to be head of state."