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I'm just picturing being a PM watching your portfolio get beta fucked on a sharp market turn, goofed out of your face, trying figure out how to manage the positions. That sounds awful. ALL the PMs I know are staunch anti-weed but probably 1/3rd of them are alcoholics. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

just reading this makes me want snacks

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Principles does read like a guy who's geeked out trying to sound philosophical...

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

I met a lot of potheads in NYC and it seemed like the HF types were more cerebral and into smoking weed after hours and the IB types liked coke and alcohol.

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