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YOUR BLANDNESS WON'T CUT IT!

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Right. There is some terrible fucking confusion at the SEC. It has charged Zvi Goffer with insider trading. It's all to do with the Galleon affair. 'Well, that's fair. That's fair enough' - you might say, dear reader. What alarms me though, is that they are calling this man "the Octopussy". Apparently because he had his arms in so many sources of inside information.But, Master, wouldn't it have

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Earn success every day. Earn it. Work hard for it. Follow the example of Bobby Diamond. See him fly eight miles high in the friendly astral sky! BarCap is focused. Focused on your success. Focussed on you. Yes. This investment bank watches you. You are not alone. You may live in a cave in the desert. You may live in a hut in the woods. You may spend most of your time burning it up on the astral

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Who is Charles LeCroy? Who is Douglas MacFaddin? Well, according to the SEC, they are ex-managing directors of J.P. Morgan Securities. The SEC says they 'made more than $8 million in undisclosed payments to close friends of certain Jefferson County commissioners'. You can read the full shit here.Interesting.But I have been speaking to Nicky Pickles - brother of the world's most demonic financier,

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Yes, Mark Kary, the CEO of Polar Capital, is leaving at the end of the year. He has resigned. Tim Woolley is taking over as CEO right now! Yes, now! But Mr Kary is hanging around for a while to make sure everything runs smoothly.I have been speaking to Mark about his resignation. This is what he told me: 'Yeah, Mikey, I'm going away. Going to find a burning in the desert. (Jesus, Mark. So many

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Do we smile like broken skulls when money slips from our hands, when it goes away? Do we welcome DEATH when we have no money? Or do we pray to gods on the astral plane? Do we find love in hell? Let me tell you, my children: There is a time for blood. A time for death. A time to make money, and to lose it. But the important thing is to remain STRONG!O my children, my brothers, my sisters, a

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If you asked Sophia Grene about Goldilocks, if you could summon the strength to ask her, she would tell you it was a structured product that had just been launched by Insch Capital Management. And she would tell you that it was nothing out of the ordinary. That's what she would tell you. And maybe she would be right. But I do not have the strength, not today. So I will just listen to any voices

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Hooray! The kings of Tyrus with their convict list are waiting in line for their geranium kiss!O Master, is Tony Chedraoui one of the kings of Tyrus?You bet your ass he is! According to Young Gadwin, he has raised more than $800 million from investors.O Master, have you spoken with Young Gadwin?You bet your ass I have! Young Gadwin told me this hedge fund launch will give a boost to all hedge

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I haven't written much about Gillian Tett lately. To tell you the truth, she hasn't really been on my mind.But it is past midnight now and I am listening to Charlie Parker with Strings, and - surprisingly - there are no voices, no spirits, no mystical children, to bother me, and so I turn my mind to earthly matters. I think of Gillian. Visualize her. I am in the mood. Where is she in this lonely

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If you write about anything, absolutely anything, with the right vision and the right degree of emotional intensity, you will go beyond your chosen subject matter into a new world, a higher life - away from all the shit and the dirt of your present life. You will transcend language and meaning. The subject is not important. Vision is important. Emotional intensity is important.Do not despair.

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THEY HAVE GONE HOME!!! Hooray! Back to Cadogan Management LLC! This is brilliant. You see, Stu, Paul, Mick, Rich and Joel, they left a few weeks ago. But they're back already! I can hardly believe it.This is what Stuart Leaf told me: 'Mikey, yeah, there has been a management buyout. We ain't got nothing to do with Fortis no more. But that's not why we're back. We came home for the mystic burning.

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Yes, now he is. There. With fire in his mouth. I see him. Look! You can see him. This is something holy and pure. If Cheyne Capital vibrates in a lonely cosmos - and we all know it does - then there is nothing to fear. What will Max distribute?I have been feeling ill all afternoon. And I started off so well, so full of joy at finding Pablo! Not physically ill. Not mentally ill. Spiritually ill!

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Pablo Triana, some crazy cat, has written in the FT today that 'CDOs killed us'. That's collateralized debt obligations, for those who don't know and may not even care. They killed us! They killed us?O Master, CDOs did not kill us. We are still alive.Pablo also speaks of the gates of hell.The gates of hell?! O Master, he is in danger.Yes, he is. Poor Pablo has obviously travelled too far in his

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Lies that are truer than the literal truth. Visions of money more real than the cash in our wallets. Dreams of bankers, dreamy bankers with flesh unreal but more than real! Imagined voices, saying things our voices would never say. A fantasy of blood on the walls! A sea of false tears in our eyes!Speak to me. Let me hear. Show me. Let me see.

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Yeah, I get all the exclusives, me. I must be blessed.This is what Roomy Khan told me: 'O Mikey, I had to inform on Raj Rajaratnam. It was the only way. I had to escape the clutches of Mr Pickles. You understand, don't you? I have always been a follower of Big Herb. He is my mystic lord. But the evil Mr Pickles came to me in the night, the way he comes to all traders who wander in darkness, the

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The uncensored version:Dear Galleon Employees, Clients and Friends,I have decided that it is now in the best interest of our investors, employees and mystic lords to conduct an orderly wind down of Galleon's funds while we explore the cosmos within and without. At this important time, I want to reassure investors of the burning power of our funds and assure Galleon employees that we are seeking

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Larry or Laurence? I don't know. What sounds best? Anyway, Larry/Laurence, CEO of BlackRock, has told the FT: 'Clients are putting money back to work in the markets, driving inflows in equities and bonds, and outflows in money market funds industry-wide'. More here.And that's great. It really is. I'm happy for the FT. But Larry/Laurence was far more candid with me.O Master, it was just a

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What? No, not really. But we can dream.So can the investors who put their money into HomePals Investment Club. The SEC has charged Ronnie Eugene Bass Jr, Abner Alabre, and Brian J. Taglieri with conducting a Ponzi scheme. The people who invested were Haitian-Americans, so we can expect some voodoo reprisals. The SEC says: 'Bass presented himself as a master trader of stock options and commodities

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Imagine spending your whole life on Trick's rooftop.That could have happened to Jim Morrison. He could have spent his whole life up there. But he didn't. He formed The Doors, and the rest is history.He didn't work in a bank either. He went from Trick's rooftop to pop stardom. He spent some time in the desert, of course.What is a shaman?Tell us, Jim!Jim: 'He's the medicine man of the Indians. He

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In the Financial Times today, Tony Jackson asks: what is a bank, or a banker?Shocking. He doesn't even know the basics. How did he get a job at the FT?But it started me thinking, on a deeper level.What is a bank? A bank is like a river on the astral plane. It flows. It carries burning money out into the sea of our consciousness. A burning river. A burning sea. The bank/river becomes the sea of

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Right, this is pretty complicated, but let's see if I can make some sense out of it.Various characters have been accused of insider trading, and the Feds are going around arresting everyone. Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon hedge fund and long-time associate of Jack Pickles, had phone conversations with Danielle Chiesi (New Castle Partners) who is friends with Mark Kurland. They had a

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According to Dan Roberts - the man who manages the Gartmore UK Equity Income Fund - the recent market rally has allowed investors to take advantage of cheap blue chips. And his fund is betting on these blue chips now. But that's not what interests me. What interests me is what he told Reuters: 'Normally, I get my yield from lower-quality companies with the standard kind of risk-return trade off.'

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Crashing into our minds, a wall of cash will smash us, a burning wall of money!O my children, my brothers, my sisters, my consciousness is on fire! Be my babies. I'll make you happy, my babies, just wait and see. For every kiss you give me, I'll give you three. A kiss of money! A mouthful of cash! O Kurt Bjorklund, say it, say it, man! 'There is a wall of cash coming towards our investors over

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I think we can safely say that Nick Levene is a man who has lived the dream, but where the fuck is he? Apparently, this City financier (derivatives trader) and vice chairman of Leyton Orient FC has done a runner, owing his mates/business associates £70 million or so. For reasons best known to themselves, they call him "Beano". Well, I suppose it could be worse. They could call him the Gangster of

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Yeah. Goldman Sachs' third-quarter earnings are released later this week, and Meredith Whitney - you know, that top analyst bird - has downgraded the bank's shares from buy to neutral. This is an outrage!O Master, it's always an outrage with you, isn't it?What does Pablo Picasso have to say about the matter?The big bouquet of horrors and frights is already waving farewell. And the mussel shells

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