The answer is FOUR.

Above, The Bandit discusses with reporters how it feels to go from being the largest bank in market cap to the fourth-largest.
From Crains, the massive losses, slash-and-burn cost cutting and general tale of fail about what’s going on at C right now:
“Citi no longer matters,” says Bill Smith, head of Smith Asset Management, a shareholder in and longtime critic of the bank. “It’s a black hole.”
“If Citi didn’t have the government backing it, I’d say the stock is a short even at these depressed levels,” says Whitney Tilson, co-founder of hedge fund T2 Partners.
Even if we assume that morgtage losses are over and done with, C has a wealth of other problems, such as its credit card portfolio, its inability to pick up a smaller rival to shore up its deposits and Bandit’s persistent night terrors from which he wakes, screaming out “STAGECOACHES!” and in a cold sweat. I can’t call Citigroup’s move “from first to worst,” but I can call it “from top to slop,” I suppose.


Lolo, ESQ // Nov 6, 2008 at 9:45 am
oh god i am lol
Lolo, ESQ // Nov 6, 2008 at 9:45 am
oh and you can call the move from suck to blow
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