AJ's Profile
Entry: Power Couples: "Bank slayer and the ring king"
posted by AJ
Aug 07, 2008 12:12PM
He seems entertaining. She seems very annoying
Entry: Power Couples: "Bank slayer and the ring king"
posted by AJ
Aug 07, 2008 12:28PM
@18 Am I the only one who is entertained by retarded people?
Entry: Bond Insurer To Sue Hedge Fund For Speaking Truth?
posted by AJ
Aug 08, 2008 3:53PM
Haha, oh man, I luv ya bess
Entry: "It looks to me like Bear Stearns got riddled with bullets''
posted by AJ
Aug 11, 2008 1:05PM
Why only bet $2 million and why pick such a close expiration date? If you were part of a concerted effort to take down Bear, I'd assume you'd have the resources to buy a lot more options, and not just the way out of the money, near term expiration ones. Also, why pick the ones expiring in 10 days? You might know that Bear is faltering, but can you really pinpoint the day it collapses? Seems like dumb luck
Entry: "It looks to me like Bear Stearns got riddled with bullets''
posted by AJ
Aug 11, 2008 1:14PM
I feel like you'd have to be an insider to do this since you'd need to truly know the extent of the damage the hedge funds had done to the balance sheet... if you were an outsider, how could you know how effective the attacks were?
Entry: "It looks to me like Bear Stearns got riddled with bullets''
posted by AJ
Aug 11, 2008 1:34PM
@16 Why draw attention to yourself? It was bad enough that I just pulled a March 11 WSJ blog post that said "Today, more than 17,000 March put options at the $30 strike price have traded, an exceedingly aggressive bet on a sharp downturn in the stock, lately traded at $58.36 — particularly as those options expire next week."
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/03/11/financials-exhale-except-bear-stearns/
Entry: Fannie and Freddie CDS Spreads Even Wider
posted by AJ
Aug 19, 2008 4:46PM
@1 do most of the retail people buying Fannie and Freddie stock know that? not a chance
Entry: John Paulson Also Said To Be Huge Fan
posted by AJ
Aug 19, 2008 7:32PM
My only thought on the Jonas Brothers is that I hope Disney ruins the little evangelicals like it does with all its other teen stars
Entry: Dick Fuld Shot Down
posted by AJ
Aug 20, 2008 10:50AM
@8 if you work at lehman, $200k of stock
Entry: Merrill Brokers Push Issuers On Auction Rate Securities
posted by AJ
Aug 20, 2008 2:54PM
Is getting into a pissing match with Bill Gross a smart plan?
Entry: Opening Bell: 8.21.08
posted by AJ
Aug 21, 2008 9:09AM
Has anyone seen the Microsoft Mojave ads? They need to rush those Seinfeld spots out because the whole "look, we're not as crappy as you thought" angle isn't making me rush out to buy a new computer with vista.
Entry: Asians Balk At Lehman Buy and The Fed Steps In
posted by AJ
Aug 21, 2008 10:00AM
@17 Is it feelings or feerings?
And carney, don't listen to them
Entry: Goldman Forces Employees To Poke On Their Own Time
posted by AJ
Aug 22, 2008 1:08PM
What are the rules with this? People will find workarounds for every single thing they try. How much is their culpability reduced by them saying "we tried"?
Entry: Goldman Forces Employees To Poke On Their Own Time
posted by AJ
Aug 22, 2008 3:30PM
@10... yes Anal_yst has all sorts of insider connections like VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/05/confirmed-facebook-to-let-employees-sell-some-stock/) and Silicon Alley Insider (http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/is-facebook-letting-employees-cash-out-)
As well as probably the NYT and WSJ
Entry: JP Morgan Takes A $600 Million Writedown In Fannie and Freddie Preferred
posted by AJ
Aug 25, 2008 3:23PM
@5 I'm voting for instituting "stocks must always go up" and ignoring the problem
Entry: Why Do Banks Own So Much Fannie and Freddie Preferred?
posted by AJ
Aug 27, 2008 12:20PM
The highlight of the Portfolio article is that it reads "according to John Carney..."
Carney are you trying to replace Gasparino?
Entry: John Edwards Affair & American Psycho
posted by AJ
Aug 07, 2008 10:07AM
@2 Because John Edwards is a dick and we want to make sure he doesn't become AG