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Entry: Live Blogging The LEH Conference Call
posted by golden girl
Jun 09, 2008 12:25PM
Investor, please don't say Secret Sauce, it's giving me flashbacks to my abomination of a performance on my test Saturday.
Damn you Schweser! (shaking fist at sky)
Entry: Top Obama Insider Tied To Countrywide, Ran Fannie Mae
posted by golden girl
Jun 10, 2008 12:30PM
Mickey Kaus wrote a ton on this last night, worth the read:
Entry: Gasparino: CFO Erin Callan, COO Joseph Gregory Out At Lehman Brothers
posted by golden girl
Jun 12, 2008 1:03PM
I usually care way less than I probably should about misogynism, but hot damn - the posts in here are outrageously disgusting today.
Entry: Becky Quick Tells You How To Dress Like A "Financier"
posted by golden girl
Jun 12, 2008 3:25PM
What an enlightening comment thread.
She's right on the money re the linen. I see so many people walking around the floor in the summertime with horribly wrinkled pants, and it just looks atrocious.
Entry: Becky Quick Tells You How To Dress Like A "Financier"
posted by golden girl
Jun 12, 2008 3:44PM
@3:28 - ?
Entry: Egg-Fearing BoA Interns Compete In McMuffin "Challenge"
posted by golden girl
Jun 20, 2008 1:29PM
OMG - Rosarios downtown is closing!!!!!!! How did I just find this out?????????
Entry: Who Tried (And Failed) To Save Bear Stearns?
posted by golden girl
Jun 30, 2008 1:42PM
Actually, Vanity Fair has traditionally had very good (and often juicy) coverage of business related scandals and other stories. Clearly they're limited to the monthly publication cycle, but their strength in covering some of these stories in a long-form non-fiction narrative is one of the things that got me so excited about the launch of Portfolio. With a few exceptions (notably the website) Portfolio has been something of a let-down; I continue to think that most of the VF finance/business related stories are superior.
Entry: Goldman Credit Funds Saw June Losses
posted by golden girl
Jul 03, 2008 12:45PM
Interestingly, GS's quant funds are having a strong year. Doesn't surprise me when you've cut down the assets so much, tho.
Entry: Hank Paulson: Supporting Fannie and Freddie In Their Current Form
posted by golden girl
Jul 11, 2008 11:30AM
Anyone have a link to the statement text? Is it online anywhere? Is that the full statement?
Entry: Opening Bell: 7.14.08
posted by golden girl
Jul 14, 2008 9:24AM
I think it's pretty interesting (if unsurprising) that the deals getting done right now aren't the complex financial structured transactions of yesteryear but rather textbook and straightforward transactions. Economies of scale ... giant breweries ... Warren Buffett ... it's like Microeconomics 101, you know?
How's the sunburn Joe?
Entry: Admit Nothing!
posted by golden girl
Jul 14, 2008 1:19PM
Anyone else think it's a bit of bad timing for CNBC to be running promos with the tag line "Moving Markets" ?
Entry: Anheuser Surrenders for The Price of A Pint
posted by golden girl
Jul 14, 2008 1:24PM
What do we think Modelo will do?
Entry: Soup lines, free loaves of bread, 5lb blocks of cheese, bags of groceries
posted by golden girl
Jul 23, 2008 2:20PM
Yay, see you there JC!
Entry: Soup lines, free loaves of bread, 5lb blocks of cheese, bags of groceries
posted by golden girl
Jul 23, 2008 2:28PM
They're not communists, they're fascists. They just happen to circle jerk back and meet each other at the ends.
Entry: Soup lines, free loaves of bread, 5lb blocks of cheese, bags of groceries
posted by golden girl
Jul 23, 2008 3:41PM
Clown Capital, you sound like quite a guy! I bet you're a hit at parties!
Entry: Soup lines, free loaves of bread, 5lb blocks of cheese, bags of groceries
posted by golden girl
Jul 23, 2008 3:48PM
@HAM : I'm pretty annoyed by the location. It might as well be in Jersey.
Entry: Drilling Down Into The CFA Results of DealBreaker Readers
posted by golden girl
Aug 21, 2008 2:34PM
It would be lamer than lame to put individual section scores on a resume. What, "Got above 70% on CFA Level 2 Derivatives section?" Give me a break.
Anyway, I'm with everyone else - econ was my worst section despite being an econ major. It was so obnoxious of them to put two balance-of-payment questions on there! And portfolio management. That section was so fucking random.
Entry: Drilling Down Into The CFA Results of DealBreaker Readers
posted by golden girl
Aug 21, 2008 2:43PM
You know, I think the more "real world" knowledge you have on a topic, the harder the topic is on the test. It's just hard to "un-learn" things that may be the convention but aren't what is taught in the curriculum.
Entry: Live Blogging The LEH Conference Call
posted by golden girl
Jun 09, 2008 11:51AM
About 20 seconds after the LEH conference call we get this over the SS1:
NOT IMPRESSED WITH LEHMANS CALL WE WILL SELL 500
heh.