So let’s say I instruct my employees to conduct their every function as if their desks were lined with the butts of our clientele… I.e., “there is absolutely no task whatsoever, no break-room conversation, no nothing that takes place within these walls that we wouldn’t be willing, even eager, to have our clients witness”… What [...]

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If you defend your political bent with religious conviction, this’ll either provoke table-pounding vindication or utter dismissal… If however, you seek the truth – if you refuse to be manipulated by statistics presented ex-underlying [real world] data, this’ll make you think…

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This is just me thinking out loud… First; a couple corrections: *I say “fair value” (should’ve said “fairly valued” or “trading at the historical p/e”) when referring to the market of March 2009… “Fair value” on Wall Street refers to the equilibrium value of a futures contract… *When referring to the $5 trillion additional national [...]

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Want a Wall Street job? Want to make big big bucks? Start out in Washington and get as close as you can to Treasury, the Fed, fiscal committees, etc.  Once you’re in, once you’re known to be working close with say Geithner for example, you’re a shoe-in for a job at a major firm… Like [...]

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Millions, Billions, Dollars, People… It gets confusing!

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Perfect timing (just received this)… Here’s one for both sides of the argument… Mr. Larson suggests that it is indeed more difficult today, than in years past, for the poor to become rich in America (now keep in mind, it’s “years past” that Robert Reich [previous post] is [in my humble view] misrepresenting)… And the [...]

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