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Yes, I hope you have an Astral Christmas. I'll be back on Monday 4th January.

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First of all, I want to apologize for yesterday's post. What the fuck was that all about? Never mind. I just wish I could control my writing. If you, dear reader, never know what's coming next, how do you think I feel? It's terrifying! But I won't delete the post. I quite like the Celine quote.Anyway, let's try and be a bit more positive today, eh? Let's take a look at Vinayak Gowrish, Adnan

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Just take a close look at yourself and the degree of rottenness you've come to. There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you. Life is keeping body and soul together. - Louis-Ferdinand CelineHow do you go on? How do you pretend it's all worthwhile? How do you squeeze more words out and try and make

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Yeah, man. Robert Kelly ain't gonna be no Bank of America chief executive, man. He's staying at BNY Mellon as chief executive. He's gonna burn there for many years yet. That's what he wants to do. And that's what I want him to do. Big Herb and Ganesh the elephant god are completely supportive. Even the ghosts of the dead financiers approve. We all want Mr Kelly to stay at BNY Mellon. Mr Kelly

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When I was alive before the creation of the universe, possible future time tragedies were played out in the cell of my soul with darkness. There were no fires. Cash did not flow. Love did not trickle down. The skulls of capitalists were scattered over the City like so many stars on the rag of the night sky._________________________Yes. Yes. Yes. Bankers, the communists want your EVERYTHING. They

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Culross Global Management has launched the LT Alpha fund. It is going to invest in illiquid hedge funds. Credit assets. I don't know.O Big Herb, I am not sure I can take much more of this. Is this my destiny? Why was I chosen for this work? Nigel Blanshard reckons there are a huge number of illiquid instruments out there. Out where? Is he referring to the cosmos? What does Nigel know about the

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Yeah, spiritually exhausted. Mentally exhausted. Whatever. Even physically exhausted. Astrally exhausted. My chakras are a mess. I'm really struggling to get to the end of this blogging year. Sure, I'll be taking two weeks off at Christmas, as usual. But …Bloody hell. I was going to write about the tax on bankers' bonuses today. I haven't got the energy.Funnily enough, I'm toying with the idea of

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O my children, my brothers, my sisters, what did Brad Morrice see when he watched the storm?Did he see subprime demons spewing fire? Did he see the terrible face of Satan? Were angry clouds chasing him through an astral sky? Was this an inner storm, a subconscious storm?And did he tell Patti Dodge? Did he tell David Kenneally? Or did he keep the awful visions to himself?O Master, he recorded his

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They have 'really super people' at Janus Capital Group. Tim Armour says so. But what makes them so super?They are visionary mystics and shamans like myself. Tim doesn't want to admit that. He doesn't want to tell the world the truth. So they are 'super'. They are 'very talented'. And that's fine. That's great. But we know they are covered in the ectoplasm of desert ghosts. We know of the burning

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Warning: this has nothing to do with money.God is not human.God cannot be found in scripture.God cannot be found in a building.God cannot be found by the human intellect.God cannot be found by the human imagination.You cannot find God.But lose your ego, lose yourself, lose your ludicrous humanity, and God will find you.

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Climate change is natural, not man-made. Lies are man-made. The watermelons will steal all your money. Socialism failed. So let's have environmentalism. I don't think so. I don't think we want a new evil to replace an old one. We just want to be left alone. And there is nothing special about this planet. There are billions of planets.O Master, I am sick of this world of lies.The European Union is

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Caesar had found his own path, the path he had always sought. Since the contemporary oppositions afforded the outsider nothing that would have induced him to take up a firm, objective position, he had to find his point of reference, his criteria, within himself. With no cause to take up, he had to develop his personality freely and without ties. - Christian MeierThis is the Conquest of Nothing.

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The wild eyes of panthers in the skins of men! – Arthur RimbaudOh my God! What the fuck is this shit?! No one told me about this. No one asked my permission. These FSA motherfuckers are out of control! They can't just let astral panthers - I presume we're talking astral panthers here, in the skins of 'established' business folk - go prowling around the City, biting lumps out of people. Because

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I don't know if you know this, dear reader, sweet child o' mine, but Thomas Salter is the head of product development at JPMorgan's equity derivatives group. So what? you're probably thinking. Who gives a shit what he's the head of? Oh, come on, don't be like that. Tom ain't no square. Not with his corkscrew hair. And he's got something to tell us -'Mikey, as I told Ruthie and Sophia at the FT,

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I can't follow the news all the time. Not when I'm confused. Not when my soul is aching. Not when. Not when I'm lost, neither floating (thank you) on the astral plane nor walking on this cold earth.I wish I could write. I feel I'm letting you all down. I hardly have the energy to move my fingers over my laptop keyboard. I have lost my will. My ego has evaporated. This happens a lot. I cannot even

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And we could leave it there, hanging in the space of your head. Words from the London Stock Exchange, as good as any words that I could find anywhere else. But there is poetry in money, in shares. You know this.What is in that 'all'? What is in that 'order'? Mysteries!O Master, please do not ask strange questions. You are looking for mysteries where none exist.O my child, you are wrong. There is

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A guest post by a mystic child.Yes, I'm afraid the Master is all fucked in the head after last night's debacle. This is what it means to be a shaman. Not really a career option for the faint of heart, is it?Anyway, it's down to me to hold the fort yet again. Do you know that Lloyds has launched a £13.5 billion rights issue? Current investors will be able to get shares at only 37p each. That's a

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There they are! Pat Kiley and Trevor Cook, their money frozen, assets, frozen, money, frozen by the SEC. Such lonely money that will never burn, assets that no one will touch. I see them. Gold. Cold. And I see the money. Their faces etched with pain. We will all know this pain at some point in our lives. They must experience it now. Destiny. Look!Sold unregistered investments through shell

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O my children, my brothers, my sisters, have you seen him? Have you seen Gabriel Azedo? Maybe one night he loved you in your dreams. Maybe one night he took you by surprise in a terrible nightmare. But have you seen him? O children, have you seen Gabriel Azedo?O Master, who the fuck is Gabriel Azedo?O children of the desert, mystic warriors of the City, of Wall Street, have you ever lost

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Yeah, I decided to get rid of the old blue thing. Too square, man! I need something that reflects my status as the number one hipster in the world of banking and finance - and this is it!But what does it all mean?My blue face: This picture shows me at my most hopeless and depressed. It looks like something painted by Picasso in his Blue Period. O my children, my brothers, my sisters, there are

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Shit! I think I may be in big trouble. I haven't registered my blog with Felix Salmon. Shit! I hope he approves.He attacks Zero Hedge. He attacks Henry Blodget.Who died and made Felix God? Certainly not Big Herb.

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Yes, I posted a list back in January of a couple of hundred new Goldman MDs, but I think most of those characters got 'made' at the end of 2008. Here is the latest list.May the mystic fire of cash burn within them. May the lords of the astral plane watch over them and keep them safe.Congratulations to: Benny Adler, George Dramitinos, Anita K. Kerr, Stephen J. Nundy, Andrew Tilton, Osama A.

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Er - this must be a joke, right? Guy de Blonay is going to work with Philip Gibbs on the Financial Opportunities fund at Jupiter Asset Management. Tell me someone is having a laugh. Those two characters won't be able to work together. It will be like Tom and Jerry. It won't be like Morecambe and Wise. It will be like Tom and Jerry. They won't get on.I have been speaking to award-winning financial

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That's how Antony Jenkins would say it. Yes, Antony Jenkins - the new head of global retail banking at Barclays. DON'T MESS WITH US. He means: Don't fuck with us. Don't even think about fucking with us. That's what he really wants to say. And he hasn't even said: Don't mess with us yet. But he will. He's building up to it. Then he'll really lose his temper, and say: Don't fuck with us. Virgin,

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But he only wanted a bonus! That's why he did it. Yes, Alexei Krilov-Harrison was a stockbroker at Pacific Continental Securities UK Ltd. He encouraged his clients to buy shares in Provexis. And now the FSA has fined him £24,000! So unfair. At least the FSA gave him a 20 per cent discount.O Master, is there something you're not telling us? Wasn't Mr Krilov-Harrison using inside information?O my

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