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James McDonald, CEO Of Rockefeller & Co., Has Committed Suicide

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From the Associated Press:

Massachusetts investigators say James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

 

A spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office says the 56-year-old McDonald was found in his vehicle at about 3 p.m. Sunday behind a car dealership in Dartmouth.

 

The spokesman, Gregg Miliote (mill-ee-OH'-dee), says it appears McDonald shot himself but the death is still under investigation.

 

McDonald had been president and chief executive of the New York investment manager since 2001. The company was started in 1882 by John D. Rockefeller to manage the family's assets.

 

McDonald, a New York City resident, was also on the boards of NYSE Euronext and CIT International.

The corproate factsheet provided at Rockefeller & Co.

 

 

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Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:45 | 69836 Cursive
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Maybe he was overcome with Green Shoots.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:02 | 70046 Anonymous
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Have respect you idiot.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:39 | 70096 chumbawamba
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I respect his decision to go out with honor, unlike the ass clowns that persist in their roles at other similar ventures.

I am Chumbawamba.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:56 | 70114 Anonymous
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An act of God committed by man offers no call for respect. The weakness of contempt offers nothing and receives no reward. It is better to say nothing of nothing and remain as silent as those that perish unto eternity and do not rise from the dust but unto their own judgment. Woe unto man, for the deceiver claims dominion and has nothing. This criminal robs Justice from her clothes and is consumed by the seal of the mark of a self devouring beast that was and is not, yet lived. My friends we are eternal in the name of Yahshua only and there is nothing offered by failure that shall receive salvation. This act defines the market and all that are sealed by the wage of sin it claims and the lord of the harvest it sacrifices every day it sells wisdom, extorts virtue and buys the strong delusion offers.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 18:13 | 70383 Anonymous
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Ahh, peyote.

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 01:07 | 177488 Anonymous
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INCREDIBLY WELL SAID!!!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:02 | 70123 Anonymous
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Respect for what?

You are not GIVEN respect, you earn it.

What these shysters have done on Wall Street is earn the vitriolic hatred and despisement of very thinking person on the planet.

We only wish several thousand more of them would gather together in a Jonesian exit, out of our lives once and for all.

Better for us all, had he and they never been born.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 17:37 | 70323 Anonymous
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Or maybe, the vampire squid helped him pull the trigger.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 17:38 | 70325 Anonymous
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Nah, just found out that he won't be gettin' his multi-million dollar bonus.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 00:12 | 70749 Anonymous
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...You would want to check the books at JD Rock!

Kim

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 17:47 | 75741 Anonymous
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Cursive....you are an asshole.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:45 | 69837 Anonymous
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Here's an MSM guy who seems to have a good grip on reality.....

I picked this up from Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture.... Dylan Ratigan hosts the show Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, which airs weekday mornings from 9 to 11 A.M. ET.

----

The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system.

It is a system that remains in place to this day.

A system where bank lobbyists have been spending in record numbers to make sure it stays that way.

A system that corrupts the most basic principles of competition and fair play, principles upon which this country was built.

It is a system that so far has forced the taxpayer to provide the banks with the use of $14 trillion from the Federal Reserve, much of the $7 trillion outstanding at the US Treasury and $2.3 trillion at the FDIC.

A system partially built by the very people who currently advise our President, run our Treasury Department and are charged with its reform.

And most stunningly — it is a system that no one in our government has yet made any effort to fundamentally change.

Like health care, this is a referendum on our government’s ability to function on behalf of the American people. Ask yourself how long you are willing to be held hostage? How long will you let our elected officials be the agents of those whose business it is to exploit our government and the American people at any cost?

As hostages — was there any sum of money we wouldn’t have given AIG?

Why did we pay Goldman Sachs and all the other banks 100 cents on the dollar for their contracts with AIG, using taxpayer money, while we forced GM and others to take massive payment cuts?

Why hasn’t any of the bonus money paid to the CEOs that built this financial nuclear bomb been clawed back?

And more than anything else — why does the US Congress refuse to outlaw the most anti-competitive structure known to our economy, one summed up as TOO BIG TOO FAIL?

It has become startlingly clear that we as a country, and I as a journalist, had made a grave error in affording those who built and ran those banks and insurance companies the honorable treatment of being called capitalists. When in fact the exact opposite was true, these people were more like vampires using the threat of Too Big Too Fail to hold us hostage and collect ongoing ransom from the US Government and the American taxpayer.

This was no unlucky accident. The massive spike in unemployment, the utter destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Great Depression all resulted directly from these actions.

Even with all that — the only changes that have been made, have been made to prop up and hide the massive flaws on behalf of those who perpetuated them. Still utterly nothing has been done to disclose the flaws in this system, improve it or rebuild it.

Last fall was an awakening for me, as it was for many in our country.

And yet, our Congress has yet to open its eyes, much less do anything about it. In fact conditions have never been better for the banks or worse for the rest of us.

Why is this? Who does our Government work for? How much longer will we as Americans tolerate it? And what, if anything, can we do about it?

As we approach the anniversary of the bailouts for our banks and insurers — and watch the multi-trillion taxpayer-funded programs at the Federal Reserve continue to support banks and subsidize their multibillion bonus pools, we must ask if our politicians represent the interests of America? Or those who would rob America of its money and its future?

As a country, we must demand that our politicians stop serving those whose business models are based on systemic theft and start serving those who seek to create value for others — the workers, innovators and investors who have made this country great.

Originally published at the Huffington Post;

~~~

I can attest that what he says is true...

Best regards,

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:46 | 70020 Anonymous
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Ratigan sure asks some silly questions. He knows exactly who Lord Blankfein and Jamie Dimon works for. He knows that CONgress' eyes are open wide shut.

What he is avoiding is naming names. There is no such thing as Goldman Sucks. There is no such thing as CONgress.

There are only rotten to the core men and wimmin who are mkaing these decisions so it's time someone like Ratigan get a pair and start naming them. Every day. All day.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:46 | 69838 Anonymous
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Autopsy photos, or it didn't happen.

I figured the collapse would be presaged by lots of rich people disappearing.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:26 | 69896 cougar_w
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Indeed. But I'd imagine they first disappear into retirement on some little-known island. If the sovereigns ever do come after them, only then is it worth faking one's death.

I think there will be a lot of suicides by people who, confronted with their fall from power, simply cannot contemplate how to continue. They are not the sharpest tools in the shed, you know. Just lucky to a degree and privileged. To have all that stripped away in an instant, to be cast into the ranks of the simple millionaires with no further prospects or avenues, to lose all your high-class friends and to be forgotten as a loser... well I'd not know what to do either.

This is where it's good to be near the bottom at the start; not so far to fall. No distance to fall at all. We already know all the homeless guys in the neighborhood, pitching a tent along side theirs would be a small journey of discovery for myself and my family. Eventually working our way back into the lower-middle-class, a simple matter of labor and community building. All within human scale. I'd not look forward to it, but it doesn't represent the end of the world, either.

The problem with living beyond the human scale one's entire life is that when the bubble breaks, you have no where familiar to fall. A small divot in the scheme of things looks like an abyss.

cougar

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 18:13 | 70384 Uros Slokar
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Cougar, I've read a lot of your remarks and must say that I agree with many of them, particularly this diagnosis of the psyche of the men who work at these organizations. Lucky and priviledged is %1000 correct. I interviewed with an investment bank a week ago, and spent a lot of time around a lot of these people. I asked every single one of them if they've even HEARD of ZH, and I got nothing but blank stares back.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:46 | 69839 mule65
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$23.0 billion total assets under administration*

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:48 | 69841 mattco
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Probably not anymore. 

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:31 | 69999 koaj
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7b at the end of Q2

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:39 | 69918 Anonymous
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The ADV form says $5.6 billion total...

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:54 | 70034 Anonymous
Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:47 | 69840 Veteran
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yawn

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:50 | 69845 Bilderberg_GS_r...
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Rockefeller=Bilderberg=get rid of evidence

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:50 | 69847 Anonymous
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watching this farce play out as it has will do that to you.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:50 | 69848 blackebitda
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sadly i guess he was caught short. sadly makes for a bear market rally top. my sypathies to his family. beat the market dont let it beat you. an eternity in hell...not a good trade. seems he should have exited the business. 

 

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:51 | 69851 Anonymous
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now they are offing their own. interesting.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:52 | 69852 TumblingDice
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The investigation should be interesting. That head must have been full of secrets.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 00:13 | 70751 Argos
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You know, he could have been suffering from clinical depression.  Or is that too simple for all of you?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:53 | 69853 Mos
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Hmmm, either lost clients a lot of money or committed some type of fraud that will come to light soon enough.  Anyone know the companies 2008 and YTD performance?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:31 | 69904 Icarus
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My guess is it tracks the S&P on the way down, but has lagged on the way up.

How many underinvested fund managers do you think started to panic buy when they read the headline?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:20 | 69987 Big Al
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That's as good an explanation for today's rally as any.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:53 | 69855 Gilgamesh
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Those aren't losses you can walk away from.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:21 | 69889 Gordon_Gekko
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ROTFLMFAO!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:56 | 69857 SDRII
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Anything with suicide and rockefeller in it should be read in the same context as headlines like Syrian general commits suicide

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:59 | 69864 Anonymous
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another one we won't get to string up..What a shame....Reminds me of this video from a few months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:04 | 69871 Anonymous
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Super SELL SELL SELL signal.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:04 | 69872 curbyourrisk
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He did not commit suicide, but was instead suicided.  They need to get the facts right.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:09 | 70055 Cindy_Dies_In_T...
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Reminds me of the banker from the book Alas, Babylon. He realizes that TEOTWAKI has occurred and there is nothing he can do to change it, to stop the ball from rolling.

So he ended himself.

 

Interesting to wonder what the inside scoop is.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:38 | 70211 Chief Hatuey
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Freddie Mac CFO David Kellermann

"He was under a tremendous amount of pressure, had a nice $900,000 home up in Northern Virginia. He would have received a retention of $850,000 over the next year to actually stay with the company."

Hmm...? Payday or bullitt? Let me think...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1673463/another_suicide_surrounding_freddie.html?cat=9

Maybe Kellermann, McDonald and other suicide types (not) had missed this article about their cell phones.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-150467.html 

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:05 | 69873 Anonymous
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Hey man nice shot.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 01:08 | 70786 Mr. Mandelbrot
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Nice shot man -- I wish I would have met you . . .

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:11 | 69881 cougar_w
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Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:14 | 69884 bchbum
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Bet you a dollar there's no suicide letter.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:23 | 69891 Anonymous
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No, I'm sure that letter is being written right now...

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:45 | 69935 Anonymous
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Yes, it said, "taking time off to spend with family and my true master, Satan"

Is this a form of Bilderberg pink slip? Your services are no longer required due to reduction in force?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:20 | 69885 Gordon_Gekko
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Are you f--king kidding me? The Rockefeller Mafia Family is involved and it's a "suicide"? Well, I guess that's what you get when you manage money for the Mob.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:20 | 69886 Cheeky Bastard
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how many gun wounds did he inflict upon himself and did he try to burn his body after he was dead .. i only hope some people on WS follow this man example...

oh, and also he 56-year-old McDonald was found in his vehicle at

Cliff Baxter anyone ?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:30 | 69905 BlueStreak
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"and did he try to burn his body after he was dead .."

I can't stop laughing...thanks Cheeky

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 03:48 | 70852 theadr
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Like who was to be the next Nkrumah (not BO): 

Dr Ouko’s mutilated and charred remains were found in a thicket at Got Alila Hills near Muhoroni on February 16, 1990 four days after his disappearance from his rural home in Koru. kibaki-biwott-view-oukos-remains.jpg

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:32 | 69908 I am a Man I am...
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Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:40 | 69920 Cheeky Bastard
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Dude; that was the first thing that fell on my mind when i read the title of the post; +10 for the link.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:44 | 69927 CD
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And this is just an MSM account of the Baxter story, fringe speculation is far more colorful:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/10/eveningnews/main505845.shtml

 

Yes, it is possible Mr. McDonald's demise was not unrelated to the marginal utility of his continued silence on information he may have gleaned along his career. Possibly he was blackmailed into desparation with some embarrasing (criminal?) personal detail due for the same reason; but straight-out pro hit seems easier and less risky.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:46 | 69936 defender
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I agree.  Why would a 56-year-old shoot himself behind a car dealership?  I doubt that he has had to buy a car for himself for a decade.  If he was offed, then why, and who benefitted.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:45 | 70100 Anonymous
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Must of realized he was late on Cash for Clunkers.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:37 | 70092 Anonymous
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Don't forget Edmond Safra, NY banker murdered by a nurse in late 1999, just after the biggest bailout scam prior the naughties. Did he know something special about the NYFRB bailout of the LTCM banks? Peculiar murder, dropped from the MSM like a story about the editor's daughter.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:20 | 69887 Hephasteus
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So the people behind the banking industry are good at writing suicide notes and congressional bills, but haven't mastered the tell all book?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:24 | 69892 Anonymous
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Behind a car dealer,huh? Must've been denied his cash for clunker?

And just as we've emerged from the recession, says Bernanke blowing smoke off a nickle plate .38

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:25 | 69894 assumptionblindness
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Just another six-shots-to-the-head "suicide."

When was the last time we heard that someone commited suicide behind a car delearship anyway?  He must have been distraught about learning that the cash for clunkers program had expired...no reason to live if he couldn't have that new rig. 

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:25 | 69895 Anonymous
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Two in the head and one in the heart. Suicide.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:42 | 69922 John Self
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Just like Vince Foster.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:32 | 70065 Marshal Ney
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Let's all climb into "The Way Back Machine", for that one.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:27 | 69898 tradertim
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seems like theres only one reason he committed suicide. this invesment firm is about to blow up and he knew it. he just decided to kill himself before it implodes rather than later.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:29 | 69901 Cheeky Bastard
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that; OR; maybe, he had a little soul left in him and decided to snitch the old bastard ( we, the real bastards don't invite him often to our gatherings ) Rockefeller to whomever has some legal authority over the rotten corpse he is.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:27 | 69899 Cheeky Bastard
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probably David " The Son of the motherfucking Satan " Rockefeller brought him as an offering to his Rothschild overlords. Soon, the equinox is here, and the masters simply NEED new flash sacrificed to them. </comical attempt>

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:30 | 69906 TumblingDice
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drier than my mouth after 4:20

and incredibly funny, thx cheeky.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:34 | 69911 thegreatsatan
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man and I thought I was bummed for missing out on Cash for Clunkers.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:34 | 69912 Anonymous
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Or maybe he was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness? Or suffering from depression?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:36 | 69915 Busy-Body
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Oh, what a shame - I didn't even have him in my death pool.  NEXT!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:42 | 69923 Anonymous
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I'd say that that is going all in. No more shrimp cocktail, no more featherbeds, no more frisky wenches. Worst of all, no more jammin' the working man and making off with unearned spoils.

Gonna miss the banking game, but a slot just opened to manage lucifer's portfolio. So I'm off.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 03:53 | 70853 theadr
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Sweetness!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:44 | 69930 Prophet of Wise
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McDonald's apparent suicide came less than one week after Finn M. W. Casperson, the former chairman and CEO of Beneficial Corp. and another prominent financial figure, was found dead from a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head near his own home in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:38 | 70007 Translational Lift
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This is almost as much fun as trying to guess how many failing banks will be announced every Fri. PM....

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:45 | 69931 TumblingDice
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Who will give all the unfunded libraries and shools their donations now?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:23 | 69990 Hephasteus
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They'll have to get thier information the old fashioned way. Talk to people who aren't tooled by the corrupted publishing, education system. On the bright side revisionist history books fed to our children will reduce demands on the toilet pape industry at some point.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:47 | 70022 TumblingDice
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shorting the toilet paper industry as we speak...cheers.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:52 | 69946 Thoreau
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do you go to hell if you're suicided?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:57 | 69952 TumblingDice
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yes, and lucifer is waiting at the gates with a fruitbasket and a fresh patch of virgin blood. James has done well.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:02 | 69965 Cheeky Bastard
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA + infinity

awesome

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:20 | 70068 ToNYC
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Please don't confuse Lucifer with Satan. Lucifer brings Light; Satan is the Prince of Darkness. The difference is like night and day, c'est à dire.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:24 | 70072 Anonymous
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hosreshit....they are one and the same...

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:28 | 70079 Cheeky Bastard
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+100

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:02 | 70125 Veteran
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Son of the Morning Star

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:23 | 70176 Anonymous
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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 18:21 | 70391 Anonymous
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That was the Sioux's nickname for Custer. Also known as yellow hair that doesn't sufficiently scout and takes on at 10:1 odds seriously pissed off and organized gang bangers.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:00 | 69960 Anonymous
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The guy that fingered Blago overdosed on aspirin...a week before going to prison (he felt a pain in the ass coming on)

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:09 | 69972 Anonymous
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LOL at suicide.

How does this even get reported as a suicide?

If you die in a car, from a gunshot wound, 8 times out of ten, it was a hit.

We all know the 'mob' takes you out for drinks and gives you lines of nose candy before the old 'stop here, Johnny Bones has to yak', the car comes to a stop, BLAM.

What I love about a guy like this 'committing suicide' is that it serves as a warning to all the other MFers who might decide to get in touch with their human side.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:11 | 69974 amarshall
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After committing suicide in New Bedford, he drove himself to Dartmouth 10 miles away.

 

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212256152.shtml

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:17 | 69983 Cheeky Bastard
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wow amarshall; nice find.

You have to admit, something smells like a tuna left inside of a dead whales vagina when it comes to the words Rockefeller, suicide, plague, death, genocide, war. It all seems so connected; doesn't it.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:30 | 69998 cougar_w
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In black-ops, they call that an "exit strategy"

You make a mess, you clean it up, then you take your winnings and walk away like nothing happened because -- buddy -- nothing fcking happened.

cougar

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:13 | 70060 Anonymous
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rotflmfao!!

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 03:56 | 70854 theadr
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Who fragged that Enron guy?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:28 | 69995 KeyserSöze
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No Asprin like Blago? 

What is sadly cruel yet great about this generation and its readers is people are starting to figure out who and what these groups are:

1)BILDERBERG's, Rockefellar's

2)Council of Foreign Relations

3)Federal Reserve System origin the "pit of vipers"

The most corrupt and devious organizations in existence

 

 

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:39 | 70009 Anonymous
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This may be the beginnings of a long list of single shot apparent suicides for CEO's

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:44 | 70220 Anonymous
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We can dream, can't we?

Though I still prefer a gentle shove by an angry revolting mass..

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 17:49 | 70346 Anonymous
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Gentle shove my ass!

More like stand at the precipice while I apply a swift and painful kick to their ass...

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 22:51 | 70691 MsCreant
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Why do you want Hillary to do it? I'm confused.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:40 | 70012 Anonymous
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Henry Paulson, Joe Cassano, John Thain, Dick Fuld, Stan O'neal, Ken Lewis, Ken Linton, Tom Ollquist, Leslee Gelber, Lord Blankfein, Erin Callan, Angelo Mozilo, Christopher Cox, Robert Rubin, Zoe Cruz, Charles Prince, Neel Kashkari, Jeff Schaefer, Jamie Dimon Please do likewise.

It's the right thing to do.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 18:24 | 70397 Anonymous
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Honour before life and you've soiled the one and found unworthy of the other.

Don't make us do it. Make some expiation for the damage you've wrought and go nice and quiet like.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:59 | 70120 Hephasteus
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People like to make fun of the French but they know how to treat royalty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogI0ks2jaRM&feature=related

A bit melodramatic on the quitting strategy but I guess that's a good way to say no. You don't understand I quit. I mean I really really quit. Hard. LOL

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:17 | 70064 Anonymous
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suicide my fat ass....it's just like that cock and bull story about nelson rockefeller dying in his study with megan marshak whom no one has seen in decades....

he must have done something to piss off jay rockefeller....

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:31 | 70084 Careless Whisper
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McDonald was on the Board of NYSE and helped with the acquisition of Archipelago, which helped make NYSE very electronic. The merger was engineered by? who? who? ...Paulson, Thain, and the rest of Goldman Sachs.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 21:28 | 70581 agrotera
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...high frequency trading here we go...

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:32 | 70085 Anonymous
Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:33 | 70086 Anonymous
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Dead CEO Tuesdays! Yay.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:59 | 70118 Anonymous
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McDonald was on the board of CIT also.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:12 | 70143 Careless Whisper
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According to news reports, no suicide note, but he did call his wife....

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:46 | 70149 computertrades
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Now that you mentioned fig, you made me go and look at the chart and the stock is a long setup. The stock looks ready to run even though yu have problems with it,

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Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:14 | 70153 Anonymous
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Things have changed as now he is dead.

Yet things remain the same as all the prepubescent socialist wannabes living with mommy tree hugging morons that visit this website and post are still posting.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:33 | 70202 Veteran
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Zing!

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 17:12 | 70230 TumblingDice
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nevermind

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 19:56 | 70505 Anonymous
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kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya...

Have you hugged a tree today you sniffly little fascist creep?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 22:57 | 70696 MsCreant
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Did he fuck you too Daddy?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:16 | 70157 computertrades
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The question is why did he kill himself? No explanation

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 16:17 | 70163 Anonymous
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was his wife hot??? she will need som attention so go get up in it

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 17:18 | 70291 Anonymous
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:)

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 20:15 | 70526 johngaltfla
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Pang, Casperson and now MacDonald. Is there a trend here? And what is about to blow up? 30 day notes at 0.03% and money markets still seeing money exiting before the Friday deadline.

 

Hmmmm.....

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 21:02 | 70562 Anonymous
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If you are going to moderate this site ... why not moderate away the village idiots who post such shite. You want to present yourself as a thinking person's alternative to mainstream media ... but the pages are filled with the sputum from the simple-minded.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 21:59 | 70627 Marshal Ney
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And it's amazing how quickly a thread can morph into the Glenn Beck Show.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 23:19 | 70707 Anonymous
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glenn beck is cia hack....just like obama....

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 01:42 | 70811 TumblingDice
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At least no one is fake crying here.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 07:19 | 70878 Anonymous
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Not just "a thread" but any and every thread. Too bad that this is what Zero Hedge aspires to be.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 22:22 | 70662 Anonymous
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WHAT A BUNCH OF SICK SICK PEOPLE WHO HAVE SAID SUCH AWFUL THINGS == HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE FAMILY? YOU HAVE NO IDEA THEY ARE EXPERIENCING, OR WHAT HE WAS EITHER. IT IS SO DISTURBING TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE SO HATEFUL IN THIS WORLD.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:51 | 71133 Anonymous
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WHAT?!?! Feel sorry for some crooked thief money manager/financier scumbag. Ho, ho!! Gimme a fucking break. These slimy fuckers need to all die. They have stolen and raped the masses for long enough. I think anyone who has sympathy for these white-bread pigs is a fucking slave. Grow a goddamn spine and stand up for justice once and for all. The oligarch wealthy elite have screwed us for the last time.

No tears for these pathetic "suicides". Not a fucking chance. Go suck up to some other rich piece of shit, you coward. You will be destroyed soon enough. The day of enlightenment is near. And you manipulative elites, and the coward slaves who worship you will all find yourselves OUT OF LUCK!!

Think I'm joking. Tell it to this guy, when he finally comes after you with his thousands of brothers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NWFA6g2x-4&feature=related

You have brought the day of reckoning here. Now live with it and die already.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 23:56 | 72016 MsCreant
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Miss Priss,

You have your compassion for the family. Could be they are victims too. I have compassion for you and all of us who have been and continue to be (right this second as we breathe) ROBBED by these people. My compassion is with this herd, restless as it is, who are tired of being fucked and want to blow off some steam. Some want to blow off some heads. Looks like that happened here, so they don't see a problem.

It is all perspective.

You are not right. You are not wrong.

Go judge someone else. Or stop judging and extend that compassion of yours a little further.

Too bad I have to explain but we are all at where we are at.

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 07:27 | 70882 Baäl-Zebub
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Old McDonald had a gun?

Thu, 09/17/2009 - 00:06 | 72028 Anonymous
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Something huge must be happening. Every one knows Rockefeller is the fighting dog of Rothschild.

But the Media which is 96% controlled by those people never focus on this big news, I smell the silence before disaster.

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 13:41 | 73465 everaware
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you guys are all sick gloating over a suicide. iam well aquainted with the family and know this is a terrible tragedy...try to figure out that depression can be fatal. JSM leaves behind three children and his wife who still have to cope. everybody has lost money in this tornado. deal with it.

Tue, 09/22/2009 - 11:25 | 76345 Anonymous
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is this the "exit strategy" Bernanke was referring to?

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 19:23 | 178391 Anonymous
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Perhaps you should also conside that JSM had a life outside of his work and the reasons for this tragedy lie there. A family history of depression is difficult to overcome.

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