To: ALL CBOT BUILDING TENANTS
From: Assoc. Director/General Manager, CBOT Building
Subject: ALERT…ALERT…ALERT !
Importance: HighWe have been notified that there will be protesters attempting to perform a sit-in inside our building today at approximately 12:00 noon today, (CDT). Below is the security/safety plan that is being put in place at 11:00 a.m.:
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Chicago Board Of Trade Would Prefer Wall Street Protestors Not Reach Out And Touch Rick Santelli
By Bess LevinChicago-Based Commodities Trader Declared Dead In 1986 Actually Alive And Well In Las Vegas
By Bess Levin
On May 11, 1979, commodities trader and “family man” Arthur Gerald Jones went missing. His wife told investigators that six months prior, he’d lost his job, and due to the fact that despite selling his CBOT seat and forging her name on an application for a second mortgage, Jones still had a bunch of gambling debt to pay off, possibly to the mob, foul play was suspected, and he was eventually declared dead in 1986. This would be sad if not for the fact that AGJ has actually been living and working (as a bookie, natch, and apparently also on his tan) in Las Vegas for the last 23 years. Continue reading »
If there’s one bank that could not be characterized as a playa-hata, that bank would be JPMorgan Chase. Having said that, the House of Dimon has been forced to deliver the less than stellar news that R. Kelly may soon need to get out of his house, on account of the fact that the R&B singer hasn’t made any mortgage payments on the 11,140-square-foot spread in over a year. Continue reading »
Don’t ask questions, just accept it. Continue reading »
Are you a lady financial services employee based in Chicago interested in getting in a boxing ring? Are you a male financial services employee who knows a lady that fits the previous description, who has either beat the shit out of you before or you simply get the sense it’s entirely possible she could? Continue reading »
You’d think sleeping where Jamie Dimon hath slept would’ve been enough but no: the boy-toy CEO’s 13,500 square foot manse, which he bought in 2000 for $4.7 million, sat on the market for almost two and a half years, from the time he tried to sell it in April 2007 with an asking price of $13.5 million. James dropped it to $9.5 million and down to the bargain basement price of $6.5 million just several weeks ago. The buyer and accepted offer were not disclosed though presumably JD sealed the deal by throwing in the masterpiece pictured above, and a couplea busts cast in bronze. [CB]
Be it for protection on the floor, where he really needs or just, you know, wherevs. You can’t take this from him!
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