NotNasser's Profile
- I'm a reporter for a web-based financial news service. But of course nothing that I say at Proxy Partisans, or on Dealbreaker for that matter, reflects anything other than my own idiosyncratic and irresponsible opinions. If that.
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Entry: Opening Bell: 10.12.09
posted by NotNasser
Oct 12, 2009 9:15AM
The two Nobel winners seem worthy. But no recognition for Dennis Kneale????
The other muppets must be furious.
Entry: Bernie Madoff In Prison Yard Brawl Over Whether Or Not We've Reached A Bottom
posted by NotNasser
Oct 13, 2009 11:13AM
"he gets heated up about the markets."
Ummmm, no. He doesn't. He is left so cold by the markets that he never seems to have tried to, like, trade in any of them.
Entry: Write-Offs: 10.13.09
posted by NotNasser
Oct 14, 2009 11:48AM
My money's on Martha.
The fight, though, is in general: a good thing.
Entry: Alan Greenspan Recommends A Small Change For Big Banks
posted by NotNasser
Oct 15, 2009 1:30PM
“If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big,” Greenspan said today. “In 1911 we broke up Standard Oil — so what happened? The individual parts became more valuable than the whole. Maybe that’s what we need to do.”
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Seriously people -- I know the six fingers thing is a barrel of laughs, but be serious for a sec and help me out. Is Greenspan really trying to say, in the above example, that the break-up of standard Oil rendered the oil industry rational and efficient forever after? No troubles since?
Didn't his book say that the Iraq War was started largely to save that industry's a$$?
Entry: Alan Greenspan Recommends A Small Change For Big Banks
posted by NotNasser
Oct 15, 2009 4:10PM
#27
My "perspective" is anarcho-cap. Both right wing and left wing at the same time. Which makes me perfect for Dealbreaker, but for my sporadic outbreaks of sobriety.
Entry: Alan Greenspan Recommends A Small Change For Big Banks
posted by NotNasser
Oct 15, 2009 4:16PM
#26,
"he's referring to how, within a year and a half of the standard oil breakup, the combined market cap of the broken up companies was double what Standard Oil's had been."
Thanks. And the gasoline was a lot cheaper, too. And the industrialized world became dependent on the cheapness of the stuff, like an addict needs his fix to stay affordable, and just like the US in the 1990s and again inthe middle of the noughts became dependent on the cheapness and easy availability of credit.
The addict's motto is always, "what can go wrong?"
And there is Greenspan, the great enabler, talking about how we can enable again.
Entry: Galleon: This Came As A Surprise
posted by NotNasser
Oct 16, 2009 2:56PM
Ratting out your insider-trading ex-boss is the new sensy.
Entry: Galleon: This Came As A Surprise
posted by NotNasser
Oct 16, 2009 4:10PM
#10, Sensy as in Linda Boville.
Entry: Caption Contest Monday
posted by NotNasser
Oct 19, 2009 11:48AM
"So, what are you having?"
"Squid."
"Do they serve that here?"
"I was making a joke. Vampire? Squid? Get it?"
"Oooooh. Hahaha."
Entry: The Nicolas Cage Liquidation Sale Is On
posted by NotNasser
Oct 20, 2009 9:59AM
#24, "Think Lisa Marie will take him back?"
Take who back? Nicholas Cage or Greg? I didn't know Greg and LM had ever had a thing....
Entry: Nassim Taleb Would've Trusted Raj Rajaratnam With The Keys To His House, Not His Fridge
posted by NotNasser
Oct 20, 2009 10:58AM
#17,
So what is the racial/religious cubbyhole into which we at Grand Dragon would assign Meriwether, Scholes, and their merry band?
John Barry and Thomas Daniels of Beacon Hill?
The late Kirk Wright?
Daniel (not the football player) Marino?
Entry: Nassim Taleb Would've Trusted Raj Rajaratnam With The Keys To His House, Not His Fridge
posted by NotNasser
Oct 20, 2009 11:00AM
Well, yes, come to think of it, the Grand Dragon fund doesn't have a problem classifying Krk Wright....
Entry: Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme Was A Front For His Cocaine Dealing Business?
posted by NotNasser
Oct 21, 2009 10:59AM
Bernie! Still the King.
Entry: Felix Salmon Has Some Bones To Pick With Charlie Gasparino's New Book
posted by NotNasser
Oct 22, 2009 7:51PM
My money's on the Happy Fish.
Entry: Jimmy Cayne Has Some Questions He'd Like To Ask
posted by NotNasser
Oct 23, 2009 2:57PM
“Are you fucking kidding?” Cayne screamed at Greenberg after reading the story.
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"No, Greenberg replied, I never kid about fucking."
Entry: Opening Bell: 10.27.09
posted by NotNasser
Oct 27, 2009 9:43AM
So what he has "acknowledged" in fact and what sociopaths like #2 falsely claim he has "acknowledged" are very different. That is the point 10/16 was making, if I understand correctly.
Entry: Jamie Dimon: THE HIGH SCHOOL YEARS
posted by NotNasser
Oct 28, 2009 5:25PM
The hair says, "yes, this is the '70s." But the hands in the pockets say, "the appeal of self-abuse is timeless."
Entry: Bernie Madoff: Screwing The SEC, Anyone That Tickles His Fancy From Inside The Joint
posted by NotNasser
Oct 30, 2009 7:10PM
Mary Schapiro was also a close personal friend of mine. Heck, I can show you a letter with something like her signature to prove it. I'll meet you in her office.
-- Marc Dreier
Entry: Caption Contest Friday: How Can We Get Back To Here?
posted by NotNasser
Nov 06, 2009 3:48PM
Downloading Miley Cyrus songs onto your iPod? Free
Legally downloading Miley Cyrus songs onto your iPod? Very inexpensive
Looking yourself in the mirror the next day? A bit tricky.
Tossing said contaminated iPod into recycling bin? Priceless.
Entry: Opening Bell: 10.09.09
posted by NotNasser
Oct 09, 2009 9:28AM
Heck, have they given out this year's Economics Prize yet? I bet Dennis Kneale has that one sewn up. He's done at least as much for the popular understanding of economics as Obama has done for peace.