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.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Blind Men and the Elephant

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A HINDOO FABLE. I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Two Beds of Procrustes

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In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis. Th...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

She’s Got Legs

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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say “No” in any of them. — Dorothy Parker, 1893–1967 I suppose I should say up front, De...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Milestone

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Early this morning, O Dearly Beloved, while the East Coast of the United States slumbered (or at least I did), some poor benighted soul clic...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Scruples

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Everyone has heard the story of the man of Picardy to whom, on the scaffold, they presented a wench, offering (as our justice sometimes allo...
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