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 17, 2013

Our Glassy Essence

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Richard Diebenkorn, Knife and Glass, 1963 But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assure...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Punished by Fate

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Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899 “Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.” — Vo...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Mirror, Mirror

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La belle et la bĂȘte  (1946) – Jean Cocteau “You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Go Ask Alice

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One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that Mother gives you Don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice, when sh...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

You’ll Rise as Smoke to the Sky

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In memoriam, September 11, 2001: • A Grave in the Clouds • The Burning Ones • A Good Death Twelve years is a long time. And no tim...
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