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January 11th
There Can Be Only One!!!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/11/2009 15:56 -0500We all know about West vs. East, 2-Pac vs. Notorious B.I.G., LA vs NY, etc... How does this express itself in the HF community where most managers are either grads of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall (that Huntsman hall phallic monstrosity will never take the place of the brick facade that Saul Steinberg's Reliance renovated with a whole pile of hard-earned, scandal-free dollars) or ex-Yale Lacrosse players, yet where on occasion you may find the odd Westsider... And they can be quite floral....
Survival of the Gatest
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/11/2009 02:31 -0500Well the 2008 hsbc numbers are out. In a year that one would be shocked there were any winners at all (except for Paulson of course... Paulson could make money on Pluto, blind, limbs chopped off, without oxygen, a bloomberg terminal or his copy of Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction), here are the funds that will shortly need to raise all gates once investors realize these are likely the only places where money can still be redeemed:
I Am The Retarded Plebs' Smirking Revenge
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/11/2009 00:57 -0500
Just as our funny-speaking cousins 3 hours east of us (via Concorde; probably more like 15 hours if using one of American Airlines' retrofitted B-707 with almost two wings and a fully operational engine, and that includes the 8 hour unairconditioned tarmac wait at JFK and Heathrow) thought that the Waxman witch trials would be confined to the likes of Jim
January 10th
Timmmmmmmaaaayyyyyy.... reincarnated
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/10/2009 18:40 -0500
Yep folks, the man, the myth, the my-mom-does-my laundry womanizer may be gone (only temporarily - you can't get rid of Tim Sykes... something about weeds or cockroaches), but his spirit lives on. Just click here: http://www.greenwichtime.com/ci_11421481
A Good Start...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/10/2009 17:10 -0500
...Is 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean...
Friday Night Rumor: MGM Selling Mirage to Penn Natl
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/10/2009 01:23 -0500
After losing his shirt, bifocals, and the backup tire of his Jeep Cherokee by assuming that Ford and GM are actually competitive in the global car market, Kirk Kerkorian is allegedly selling one of his prize jewels on the LV strip: the MGM Mirage.
Citi Lives the Telecom Dream as Nortel is About to Wake
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/10/2009 00:21 -0500
It is good to see that even as the good men leaving the yellow van carrying a straight jacket (specifically outfitted with a bro/manzier for obvious purposes) are climbing up the arduous 59 storJanuary 9th
...But Can Lose Even More Weight By Walking There
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2009 22:38 -0500
Is Business Week merely slapping the faces of all those investors who in recent weeks bought a slew of follow-on stock issued by airline companies (probably the only companies raising capital in the past few months as $35 barrel/oi
Bulumics Can Not Save Fake Sugar from Chapter 11
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2009 22:06 -0500
If only sugar free meant debt free... In sweet vindication for fat people everywhere, Merisant today filed for bankruptcy. The maker of Equal and Canderel fake sugar sought Chapter 11 protection. The Pegasus Capital portfolio company (hm...
Wall Street's diarrhea shi(f)ting to Park Street er... Avenue
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2009 21:00 -0500
One can follow the daily creation and destruction of wealth simply by looking at the constantly shifting landscape in New York. Could Ezra Merkin's recent fall from grace, from the top of GMAC, and potentially from duplex 6/7B spell some days of uncertainty in this otherwise inperturbable bastion of high money, 740 Park.
