byrneseyeview's Profile
Comments
Entry: Write-Offs: 2.22.08
posted by byrneseyeview
Feb 22, 2008 6:11PM
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.
Entry: On Munis, Ratings And Contrarianism
posted by byrneseyeview
Feb 27, 2008 3:16PM
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.
Entry: Michelle Obama Urges The Poors To Stay That Way By Avoiding College And Corporate America
posted by byrneseyeview
Mar 03, 2008 3:36PM
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?
Entry: Jesse Jackson Stalks The Visa IPO
posted by byrneseyeview
Mar 05, 2008 6:04PM
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.
Entry: Eliot Spitz'or Swallow
posted by byrneseyeview
Mar 10, 2008 2:51PM
"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?
Entry: Write-Offs: 03.13.08
posted by byrneseyeview
Mar 13, 2008 9:54PM
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."
Entry: Craigslist Scam ...
posted by byrneseyeview
Apr 09, 2008 3:28PM
I don't understand what kind of hoax this would be. Do you send in your resume and get prank-called for life? Are they building up a valuable database of starving artists who sure would like to earn six figures in their day job?
Entry: Jeff Epstein's Lucrative And Mysterious Profession
posted by byrneseyeview
Jul 02, 2008 10:31AM
WSJ:
"BREAKING NEWS:
Fugitive financier Samuel Israel has been arrested, CNBC reports. "
How are you not covering this?
Entry: Buffett Lunch Goes For Over 2 Million, Non-Sequitur Sex Analogies On The House
posted by byrneseyeview
Jul 02, 2008 3:37PM
3:09
I thought Buffett was an early pro-choice guy. Didn't Munger write an amicus in Roe v. Wade?
Entry: No Wonder They Went Under
posted by byrneseyeview
Sep 17, 2008 11:45AM
@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.
Entry: So Long To All That
posted by byrneseyeview
Sep 19, 2008 8:14PM
Is it just me, or is Carney trying to write like Raymond Chandler?
Entry: Dealbreaker Swag
posted by byrneseyeview
Sep 24, 2008 2:49PM
You need better designers. I'm not going to walk around looking like a bad photoshop.
Entry: How Did KKR Financial Become A Buyout Loan SIV?
posted by byrneseyeview
Feb 20, 2008 4:54PM
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?