Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
In an interview with Yahoo News on Wed. hedge fund manager “Paul Tudor Jones sees ‘massive boom’ after COVID-19 vaccine gets released.” “The vaccine’s going to bring us back. We’re going to have an incredible growth rebound,” the investor predicted, as pent-up demand from the last year gets carried forward… …
The reason for this blog is greatly encapsulated in this Terence McKenna quote: “Not to know one’s true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their …
I had a conversation recetly with a business owner (some $ 2 Million turnover) in a similar situation as the Twisted Root Burger featured on the Wall Street Journal July 11th: business reduced by 50% with little certainty over what’s coming up in the next 18 months or so. In …
Over 6 years ago when John Lefevre @GSElevator wrote the The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man, we laughed at it. The Guide became popular because it is insolent and gumptious and full of self-reverie. It is time that someone wrote a real guide not only for the …
In an article dated today Amazon Has become America’s CEO Factory the WSJ explores the CEOs who are leading businesses after being employed by Amazon.com “Alums of the Seattle-based giant, which employs 750,000 people, head companies including Tableau Software, Zulily Inc., Groupon Inc. and Simple, an online banking unit of …
I know, I can’t put down the Game of Thrones even though the series for TV ended 6 months ago. I have been thinking about the Waif character that appeared in Seasons 5 and 6. That’s when Arya Stark apprenticed with the Waif and Jaqen H’ghar at the House of …
I don’t have an economics or a policy overview blog here. I rarely if ever talk about economic and social policies: it’s boring to me. If you want a good economics blog, head over to Mauboussin Report, Calculated Risk and others. The old statement about the rich getting richer and …
Everybody and their brothers seems to talk about the largest IPO of the year, WE (WeWork), and everyone has read the S-1 this morning. That’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. We’re going to talk about aging, something I wrote about before here and here. I described …
” We are buffed on all sides by people who wish to see us down.” -You never know this is true until you know “only the ladder is real”. These are truisms for everyone who works in a competitive field, particularly banking. One of the most used arguments they throw …
I shall reserve this article as a paid-post only. The subject may be of some interest to some albeit a small number of gents. To get ourselves familiar we’ll watch a a recent video of Dan Pena: there are hundreds of videos of him doing faceabouts at his QLE (Quantum… …
