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.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Duty

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Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Snowstorm Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopp...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Greatest Hits of 2013

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Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Parting Glass

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Georges de la Tour, The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, 1640 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own wa...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Holiday Weekend Interlude

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 The kingfisher rises out of the black wave like a blue flower, in his beak he carri...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Turning to Fresh Tasks

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Carson River, Nevada, via the U.S. Department of the Interior Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day, I paused and said, “I will t...
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