I’ve refrained from commenting on the global financial turmoil for the most part, and I know one should really be trying to put words of wisdom together, but frankly it’s all gone so mad that I’m beginning to think the Daily Mash have the right idea:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/banks-fucked-20080424901/
>Julian Cook, an analyst at Donnelly-McPartlin, said: “Remember that bit in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the big, baldy German guy is punching Indiana Jones and then turns round to see the propellers coming straight towards him? That’s how fcuked they are.”
Quite.
You might also like their take on the dire straits that some senior banking figures may find themselves in:
>EXECUTIVES at Lehman Brothers could be forced to manually adjust the seating temperature in their Mercedes, it was claimed last night.
>As America’s fourth largest investment bank collapsed, the management team have downgraded their executive limousine orders for next year insisting they can no longer afford the automatic body heat regulator and the climate controlled glove box.
>Lehman chief executive Dick Fuld said: “Be in no doubt, the long term effects of this collapse are going to be awful. For you.
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