So I’m reading this piece by Charlie Gasparino about why Wall Street has more love for the current administration than the media generally wants to admit, and I remembered earlier this year that everyone was all OBAMA IS GONNA TAX TEH BANKZ OMG and I made this little photoshop of Jamie Dimon falling out of [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2010
Mötley Crüe’s Big Oily Bailout
October 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · breaking news
Affected hotels, restaurants and others who have taken a hit to their business from the loss of tourism due to the Gulf oil spill probably won’t get any money from suing $BP any time soon, but Mötley Crüe got over half a million dollars for their recent appearance in Mobile, Alabama. They or may not [...]
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World’s Fanciest Garage Sale
October 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · madoff
If you’ve ever said we’ve been a little harsh on Bernie Madoff over the years, that we shouldn’t be so quick to judge him until we’ve walked a mile in his shoes, I have good news: now we can walk that mile. Or Alyx can, she’s into running and such. Yes, circle November 13 on [...]
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Tuesday Links
October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · links
- How can you tell when a CEO is lying? I thought it was just a logical inference to make whenever their mouths are moving, but NPR has a few other tips – Left is right, up is down, cats and dogs are living together and the market has been going up over the last [...]
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$BAC To Eat Its Own Dog Food?
October 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · all ur bankz
…up to $47 billion worth of dog food, to be exact. A group of institutional investors (and the NY Fed) have figured out that the fastest way to get some crappy MBSes off their books is to make $BAC take back the ish Countrywide was peddling: [Bloomberg] said Pimco, the New York Fed and BlackRock [...]
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