$$$ Ex-Goldman Programmer Indicted Over Software Theft [BW]
$$$ Ken Lewis’s drinking buddy retires. [Charlotte Observer]
$$$ Lenny Dykstra might’ve scammed his son out of a little money. Which means he might be even more desperate than we thought, and is all the more reason for…
Some great, clear thoughts from Rolfe Winkler on the matter of Europe’s Greek (and Spanish) problem.
As he puts it, there are only three scenarios, two of which are awful, and one is nuclear:
1) The PIIGS cut their budgets to pay back…
Cut the outrage.
American International Group plans Wednesday to pay another round of employee bonuses worth about $100 million, said several people familiar with the matter, a year after similar payments at the bailed-out insurance giant infuriated many Americans and…
I have boundless regard for Paul Volcker, but the proposed restrictions on bank proprietary trading are, well, fixing the barn’s roof after the horse has bolted. The Obama administration really, really doesn’t get the joke. The banks went bankrupt…
$$$ SEC eyes new charges against Galleon’s Rajaratnam [Reuters]
$$$ Goldman Takes GEO Fund Off Life-Support [AR]
$$$ The 15 Hottest Billionaire WAGS [BB]
$$$ Roddy Boyd on America’s Nastiest CEO [TBM]
$$$ Icahn Wins in Bid for Las Vegas Resort [Dealbook]
Las Vegas Nevada – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – United States – Reuters – Business
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$$$ Charlie Gasparino wants to see the Goldman CEO/Chairman role split. [TDB]
$$$ He’ll Take Manhattan [Crain's]
$$$ Man prospers in recession by scooping shit [UPI]
$$$ Diary of a private investor: ‘My raciest and riskiest shares are off to a flier‘ [Telegraph]
$$$ The WSJ may have gotten a few details wrong on…
$$$ Eliot Spitzer Has 10 Questions [HuffPo]
$$$ Goldman’s “Trading Ideas” [DealBook]
$$$ Conan Refuses Later Show [WSJ]
$$$ Towns Issues a Subpoena to the NY FED for AIG Counterparty Payment Documents [Oversight Committee]
$$$ Larry Kudlow: My Solution to the Banker Bonus Brouhaha [CNBC]
CNBC – DealBook – Wall Street Journal – Lawrence Kudlow – Business
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$$$ Julian Robertson named New Zealand’s first honorary knight [DP]
$$$ The Big Lebowski Gets The Academic Treatment: At times Mr. Owens sounds as if he’s been hitting the minibar himself. He writes about how Leon Trotsky is “doubly implicated” in the White Russian,…
CNBC has been talking non-stop about the Santa Claus rally. Something about the fact that the S&P is up 74% of the time between Christmas and the New Year.
But do they have any idea what Jack Bauer is doing to…
$$$ HBS Grad Jamie Dimon Showed His Alma Mater No Mercy [DI]
$$$ Making Up For Lost Bonuses [FINS]
$$$ Goldman Loses Its Top Quant [BI]
$$$ Ex. Mrs SAC Alerted FBI Two Years Ago [FINalternatives]
Jamie Dimon – JPMorgan Chase – Organizations – Recreation – Asia
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