The Epicurean Dealmaker

An occasional review and commentary on Wall Street, global finance, markets, and their participants,
by a pseudonymous investment banker.

Sometimes we will venture out into the broader landscape of society, culture, and politics
to poke and peer at their curious denizens and bring back amusing reports.

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Names will be changed to protect the innocent, if we find any.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

... All Is Well

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Somebody over at Bloomberg seems to have hired an excitable monkey to enter their real-time market alerts this afternoon. There I was, peace...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The Credit Ratings Process, Illustrated

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Notwithstanding my previous comments on the talent and work ethic of the current crop of twenty-somethings, I do have to admit that there a...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Everyone Can Be Super!

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Helen: “I can’t believe you don’t want to go to your own son’s graduation.” Bob: “It’s not a graduation. He is moving from the 4th grade ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Hysteria

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of c...

Candide, or Optimism

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Il est démontré, disait-il, que les choses ne peuvent être autrement: car, tout étant fait pour une fin, tout est nécessairement pour la mei...
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