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, January 22, 2009

The Dirt Bag Chronicles

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'N every gimmick-hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n roll Grabs the mike to tell us, he'll die before he's sold. But I beli...
Monday, January 19, 2009

The Choice of Herakles

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A dialogue, from The Memorabilia, or Recollections of Socrates , by Xenophon, translated by H.G. Dakyns: I. Duty, or Virtue: "I will n...
Friday, January 9, 2009

A Garland Briefer than A Girl's

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Robert Rubin is retiring . It is past time. He has had a long run, but I am afraid the former charter member of the Committee to Save the W...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Greatest Hits of 2008

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Whew! I'm glad that's over. What a miserable and bloody year 2008 was. I don't know about you, Dearly Beloved and Much Suffer...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Holiday Tonic II

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December 19, 2008: As I came over Windy Gap They threw a halfpenny into my cap, For I am running to Paradise; And all that I need do is to w...
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