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Attention Would-Be Thieves: Bridgewater Associates Take Their Buns Of Steel Tapes Very Seriously

By Bess Levin

Last Friday afternoon, while many a financial services employee was dealing with the fallout of receiving a bonus they did not believe to be commensurate with the work they put in for 2011, Bridgewater was dealing with a far weightier issue. The hedge fund had a thief in its ranks and said thief’s jig was up. Continue reading »

  • 23 Jun 2011 at 5:06 PM

Help Spring Lenny Dykstra Out Of The Clink Today (Update)

By Bess Levin

As you may have heard, Lenny Dykstra is currently sitting in jail on bankruptcy fraud charges. The man once named investor of the century by Jim Cramer could prepare for his upcoming trial in the company of wherever he’s crashing these days but no one has stepped up to the plate to cover the cash portion of his bail, $50,000 in cash (the collateral of $500,000 to secure the bond is in the bag). Want to do your part to bust him out? Want to bust him out without anyone knowing you helped (no names: Jim). Now you can. Continue reading »

  • 06 Jul 2010 at 3:05 PM

Are Strippers Finally Getting The Thanks They Deserve?

By Bess Levin

Time was, if you were an exotic dancer, your customers probably wouldn’t have thanked you for that lap dance you so deftly performed. Ingrates, the lot of them, but what could you do? But now? That things aren’t so happy snappy? Strippers are finally getting appreciated for the hard work they do, at least according to one gal named “Bubbles.” Continue reading »

  • 26 Jan 2010 at 2:28 PM

What’s A “Bloomberg Minute”?

By Bess Levin


With regard to…prison rape? It appears to be a new term recently coined by Tracey Ullman, in the clip above, wherein the Bubba to Bernie Madoff’s bitch rolls over and tells the Ponz Master, “Give me a Bloomberg Minute before you brush my teeth.” Obviously this thing has the potential to be huge so before it gets inserted into the vernacular we need to nail down what exactly Ping Jiang (just as a for instance) will be instructing his new special lady friend to do when he orders one of these. We can’t have some people thinking it’s just a catch-all for ‘open and willing ass’ (as indicated in the video) and others assuming HJ. So, I ask you to stop what you’re doing and let tackling this issue take precedence. It’s important.
(Sidebar: The reason I stumbled upon this clip was not because Bernie is blamed for 9/11 and swine flu but because Ullman is supposed to do a Barney Frank impression at some point this season which could be phenomenal.)