I have heard it all…
They say that if you live long enough you’ll see everything. Well, I’m only 36 years old and frankly, my friends, I believe I’ve seen, or better yet, heard it all. Recently on the way to work I was listening to Boomer and Carton, the replacement players for this old-time geezer who was fired for making racial comments about the Rutgers female basketball team earlier this year. As “the new kids on the block” went to commercial, a spot came on demanding that listeners sign a petition to close “the Enron loophole”. Signing the position, the voice said, will cause Congress to require hedge fund managers and other speculators to […]
Staying below the fold…
First of all I need to say I’m sorry for not writing for a few weeks. Business activities have just been a bit out of control. It is not that I have nothing to say; quite the contrary, it is that I have been speaking, attending, viewing and participating in hedge fund events around the globe (and at the same time working to complete a new book). To be blunt although things are just absolutely crazy, it is an exciting time in the hedge fund industry. As the credit market meltdown continues to take its toll at many Wall Street firms, hedge funds have gone from being blamed for the […]