Monthly Archives: March 2009

Patience

In leonine profile and repose he dilates with closed eyes In posse, implicit, abeyant, summoning prey for pride He stands one ear erect and pulls silence in its wake Lids retract and set dyads padding to either side To tack … Continue reading

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Mark to market? That can be arranged.

The hieroglyph that represents the lock bet is a new emblem for a new era of what I am calling “reverse secondary marketing.”

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Clearbrush

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California Restarts Daily Electricity Auction – WSJ.com

Deja vú redux. Unmentioned are the late lamented Smartest Guys in the Room. With so many Masters of the Universe trader types out of work is this really the best time to be reopening the Games?

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GM CEO resigns at Obama’s behest – Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein – POLITICO.com

How unexpected is this? Apparently, part of the job description of POTUS includes doing M&A. Can a Secretary of Investment Banking be far behind?

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Tony Schwartz: Our Infinite Capacity for Self-Deception

Each of us shares an infinite capacity for self-deception. What we fail to see – or willfully resist seeing – runs us, outside our awareness And the worst part is that we both know that we are lying to ourselves, … Continue reading

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There’s a lesson here, somewhere. I wonder what it was.

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Cod crashed, too

Iceland instantly became the only nation on earth that Americans could point to and say, “Well, at least we didn’t do that.” In 2006, at the predecessor of a company I used to work for (N.B.: I no longer work … Continue reading

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That’s what I thought, too

Job security

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On writing

The reason was a fear of immodesty, born of the injunction that wasps shouldn’t “make a show” of themselves. It was all right for me to explain the decisions that other writers made, but not the ones I had made. … Continue reading

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