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.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

A Client Is Not a Counterparty

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I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Biting the Hand that Feeds Me

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Clouseau: "Does your dog bite?" Hotel Clerk: "No." Clouseau: [bends down to pet the dog] "Nice doggie." [Do...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Solomon, that Sheba Led a Dance

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1. May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man A friendship of her kind That covers all he has brought...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Weekend Interlude

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a h...
Friday, October 1, 2010

The Relief of Distance

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After all, Facebook, like Zuckerberg, is a paradox: a Web site that celebrates the aura of intimacy while providing the relief of distance, ...
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