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, September 29, 2014

TED’s All Time Greatest Hits

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The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Oop. Time, She’s Up

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“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Some Work of Noble Note May Yet Be Done

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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Amakudari Revisited

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Thomas Nast, Mr. Moneybags “If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought u...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Labor Day

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Diego Rivera, Melancholy Promenade, 1904 Thomasina: “Oh, Septimus! — can you bear it? All the lost plays of the Athenians! Two hundred ...
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