The New York Post‘s always acerbically witty columnist Terry Keenan lines up this year’s Wall Street Turkeys and knocks ’em down. The names on the list are fairly predictable even to the lay person, in light of how much ink our favorite captains of finance have recieved nationally this year. They include Vikram Pandit, Timothy…
Lloyd Blankfein
Required Viewing for Newly-Bonused Goldman Employees
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3484400&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] So Goldman Sachs is sitting on a $16 billion bonus pool, which CEO Lloyd Blankfein is hesitant to dole out to employees amidst the possibility of populist furor in this wonderful economy of ours. My advice to Lloyd is to make the above clip from Goodfellas required viewing for the troops upon receipt of…
Squashing the Goldman Beef
You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple. Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…
Breakfast Links: Pinning Down Roubini
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… OMG, some my fave links of the month so far today! Blankfein to Goldman employees: “Please refrain from wearing your crowns outside of the office”. (New Yorker) The recession is now screwing with the British pub business, time for us to get serious. (USA Today) Just try pinning down Nouriel…
Breakfast Links: Cody Willard, CIT, Sun Valley & Jay-Z
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2945931&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] OMG, everything is wrong with this video, Batman, Robin & assorted villains sing “At The Hop” in Spanish for some reason, and then at around the 1:18 mark, a mini Spider-Man appears for no reason whatsoever (Spidey is a Marvel character, Batman is DC). This thing is nine types of bizarre. OK, on…
