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So God Made A Banker

BTbanker's picture
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 on 2/6/13 at 1:42pm

A parody to the "So God Made A Farmer" Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial. Probably the worst article ever posted on the site in its existence.

[quote=MarketWatch]
To be read in the voice of Paul Harvey.

And on the eighth day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need someone who can flip this for a quick buck.”

So God made a banker.

God said, “I need someone who doesn’t grow anything or make anything but who will borrow money from the public at 0% interest and then lend it back to the public at 2% or 5% or 10% and pay himself a bonus for doing so.”

So God made a banker.

Finance Hipsters

mikesswimn's picture
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 on 11/18/12 at 8:00am
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Morning Monkeys!

I'd like to take a moment to discuss the growing multitude of "finance hipsters" and why they annoy the crap out of me. No, I'm not talking about hipsters who happen to work in finance, I'm talking about all these bankers who love to hate on the more ubiquitous methodologies in finance like CAPM (or portfolio theory in general) and DCF models. You all know what I'm talking about, in fact, at some point, you (or someone you know) has probably had this conversation:

Banker #1:

I'm going to get the cost of equity using CAPM and then get the intrinsic value from my DCF model.

Banker #2:

Oh, you still use CAPM and DCF? Man, that's so déclassé, you know the assumptions they use, right? You should use [insert any obscure, probably firm specific model], it's way better.

Replace "the cost of equity using CAPM" and "the intrinsic value from my DCF model" with "Modest Mouse's new CD" or "non-organic milk" and you have the quintessential hipster conversation.

Hipster Rankings - North American Cities

Tommy Too-toned's picture
(Gorilla, 512
 
Points)
 on 9/4/12 at 5:05pm

They're everywhere. Smooth comb-overs and black frames, they breed like bunnies. Some are rich, some poor, but rest assured, the love is free. Organic dinners. Gluten free. It's all so post-global.

Things are all grooved out as we enter year 5 of the recession. Food trucks, fading keyboard loops, freelance photography

For the finance hipsters in disguise, shall we draft a list...

My prelim:

1) Portland
2) Brooklyn (Bushwick, Brooklyn Heights)
3) Seattle
4) San Francisco
5) New York (Lower East Side)
6) Montreal
7) Chicago, Toronto
9) L.A.
10) San Diego, Austin

...

572) Cambridge, Massachusetts

NBA Fashion

BoxerRebeller's picture
(Orangutan, 283
 
Points)
 on 6/1/12 at 7:51pm

A lot of talk about the NBA lately on here. I thought I'll way in.

What do you guys think about the clothes the players are wearing lately? I think its a little out there.

Came across this:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7997619

Discuss

Have I become a hipster?

DSKisNOTGUILTY's picture
(Monkey, 45
 
Points)
 on 2/23/12 at 9:43am

There was this girl I was seeing a while ago, a little younger and different to what i usually go for (I'm 28, she was 23 and in some arts program at Columbia). Anyway, she was smoking and it was good while it lasted. However she left some of her imprint on me. She was a hipster but as everyone knows hipster chicks are hot, but some of her music choice has made an impression on me, to the point I found myself hanging out with a bunch of hipsters the other day.

I'm finding myself enjoying stuff like this more and more everyday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB64VV-gsw8&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJtMrhb558&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBJIbSScBM

...and you get the picture.

I'm seriously worried.

Hipster vs. Math

couchy's picture
(King Kong, 1,390
 
Points)
 on 10/31/11 at 11:15pm

Hey

This is a hipster's response to an interview question.

INTERVIEW Q: If you have a 6-sided cube that has a unique color on each side (6 different colors), how many possible combinations of unique cubes are there?

HIPSTER: Maybe this is because I'm still slightly drunk, but as I read your question, the first clause is irrelevant to the answer (i.e., that you have this cube has no bearing on the possibility of other cubes), which is that there are infinite possibilities of unique cubes, given that there are innumerable qualities of a cube that have an infinite amount of possibilities, the most relevant to this discussion being the infinity of unique colors.