Citing the potential of “Occupy Wall Street” to become a “global brand,” a Long Island couple has filed to trademark the name of the amorphous organization responsible for the protests and encampments in lower Manhattan and other U.S. cities…In a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) application, Robert and Diane Maresca are seeking to trademark the phrase “Occupy Wall St.” so that they can place it on a wide variety of goods, including bumper stickers, shirts, beach bags, footwear, umbrellas, and hobo bags. [TSG]
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Mortgage Broker Who Paid Undercover Investigator $150 To Kill A Man Really Just A Victim Of Big Misunderstanding
By Bess LevinYou know how it is. Continue reading »
Tiger Woods’ alpha mistress, Rachel Uchitel, said the 9/11 death of her former fiance, investment banker James Andrew O’Grady, was meant to be. “I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good,” she tells Page Six Magazine, in The Post on Thursday. “I’m almost happy it ended the way it did because I’ve learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced.” Had O’Grady lived, Uchitel — who went on to reportedly make $500,000 a year working as a VIP hostess at Tao Las Vegas and at New York’s The Griffin, where she met Woods — believes her life would have been much different. “I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, LI,” she tells the magazine. [NYP via Daily Intel]
A refrain typically heard when discussing Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies is that it “must” be a Ponzi scheme. Those shouting ‘Ponz’ simply can’t wrap their minds about the eye-popping returns in the Medallion fund-made up mostly of employee money- and the comparatively less stellar performance of RIEF and RIFF. They’re also made nervous by the huge computers housed on RenTec’s campus-esque grounds; throw in a socially awkward CEO who professes to hate human interaction and a couple of unicycles and Ponzi is the only way they can square things away. These people are, of course, imbeciles and the statement “Jim Simons hates the feeling of nicotine in his lungs” would hold more weight. No, the quants at Renaissance are far too intelligent to run some amateur hour scam any hack broker could pull off. They make honestly, through complex algorithms and loopholes in labor laws. Continue reading »
Back in August, the Daily News ran this photo of Billy Joel on a bike with an unnamed blonde woman, who the paper claimed was an employee of Morgan Stanley and Joel’s new lady love. In October, a report claimed she was actually a Goldman Sachs “banker” (a tip possibly sourced to the GS c-suite, where they would just love to be able to say one of their own is tapping Joel). Today, the saga has finally been put to bed. The woman has gone public to say her name is Alexis, she works at Morgan Stanley and she’s in love with Mr. B. Continue reading »
These are your hints:
1) Asness is currently a Marvel comic book collector, in addition to his duties at AQR Capital
2) As we know from Scott Patterson’s The Quants, as a teenager in on Long Island, Asness was “obsessed with little besides girls and comic books”
3) Also from The Quants, the following image: “Friday morning at AQR, August 10. Asness glanced pensively at a candy-colored array of Marvel superhero figurines lined up along his east-facing window. Spiderman. Captain America. The Hulk. Iron Man.”
4) In a new profile of Cliff out tomorrow in Bloomberg Markets magazine, the manager sits on his desk flanked by said dolls, in a full-page glossy photo.
Okay, give it your best shot. Continue reading »
Back in March, Lindsay Lohan filed a suit against E*Trade, claiming that the baby in the brokerage’s latest commercial was based on her life. Lohan came to this conclusion because the character’s name is Lindsay, she’s referred to as a “milk-a-holic,” and there’s a suggestion that the young one is a man-stealing tramp (she also claimed that though the name “Lohan” is never mentioned, she’s attained first name recognition. Plus, the stuff about the baby being a strung out slut). For the grave offense, Lohan demanded the spots pulled, and $100 million for the emotional distress they caused her. At the time, E*Trade said the bitch be crazy, and claimed that they used the name Lindsay because it’s “a popular baby name” and not because they were trying to insinuate that Lohan is some sort of strung out whore (baby). Now the company is defending itself via comments that have been made online about Linds, a defense I don’t really understand but can appreciate nonetheless.
Lohan is “a pot-stirring, lazy, irresponsible, disrespectful little drama queen,” the papers — filed in Nassau County Supreme Court — quote one on-line commenter as saying.
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