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Bonus Bananas December 6, 2013
1) Sex Shocker: Leo DiCaprio A Human Candelabra In Wild Scorsese Movie ( ShowBiz411 ) - Don't act like you've never paid a hooker to jam a lit candle up your ass. Come to think of it, I probably didn't need to know this about the movie before I went to see it. Or that Jonah Hill is swinging a meat...
What happened to Bonus Bananas?
^title. Them bananas were the one thing that kept me coming back to this site every week without fail. Why stop one of the best features of the site?
Bonus Bananas August 8, 2014
1) Man Hilariously Buys All The Pies in a BK to Spite a Child ( Gawker ) "She starts running towards me but can't get to me because of other lineups in the food court. I turn and slowly walk away." 2) Self-Assembling Robots Will Inhabit Your Nightmares ( YouTube ) One of the researchers stated,...
Bonus Bananas July 18th, 2014
1) The Secret Room Under Grand Central Station ( Sploid ) Deep under Grand Central Terminal, beyond basements and subway lines and through 10 stories of bedrock lays a secret underground chamber that's almost as big as Grand Central Terminal itself. What's inside the room? 2) Attorney General Eric...
Bonus Bananas July 11th, 2014
Barbeques, Backyard Fireworks (that nearly burned down the house) with the Kids last weekend, and step-mothers/brothers/uncles/fathers beyond count. Forget your woes and aches and get ready for another Bonus Bananas. 1) The Emiratii Venture to Build the First Climate Controlled Dome City...
Bonus Bananas July 3rd, 2014
In light of Independence Day around the corner, a video-packed bite-sized Bonus Bananas is coming around a day early! 1) Israel Births Mag-Lev Uber ( Sploid ) Imagine Uber. Now Imagine Uber 20ft in the air connected to a two-person 40mph maglev transport system... Ordered up by a smartphone app. The...
Bonus Bananas June 27, 2014
1) Dinner Between Polish Ministers Wiretapped, Hilarity Ensues ( VICE ) The prize for the best quote goes to the interior minister, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz. In the first recording to be released, he tells the governor of Poland’s central bank that “the Polish state exists only in theory; in...
Bonus Bananas June 20, 2014
Happy Friday, monkeys! On to the links! 1) BitCoin to Sponsor St. Petersburg Bowl Game : Is this another step in the quest for bitcoin's relevence? Or is this merely a way to avoid the question, "What's a 'Beef O' Brady's"? 2) Canada OKs Pipeline to West Coast : In shocking news to environmentalists...
Bonus Bananas May 2, 2014
Happy Friday monkeys! I'll be filling in for Eddie for today's bonus bananas. Will it be as good? Nope. Will it be passable? Absolutely! Enjoy! 1) All Code is Bad - Learning to code? Does it suck? Don't worry, according to Peter Welch, it's all a giant bag of suck. 2) Judgemental Map of NYC - I'm...
Bonus Bananas April 18, 2014
I'm on vacation for the next month, so this is the last Bonus Bananas you'll see for a few weeks. Hope you dig 'em! 1) Deutsche Bank denies report its CEOs' jobs are at risk ( Reuters ) - Wow. I guess you can't fail the CFA Level I when you're the CEO of Germany's largest bank. Who knew? 2) The...
Bonus Bananas April 11, 2014
1) Best, Brightest and Rejected: Elite Colleges Turn Away Up to 95% ( NY Times ) - Target schools just got a little more target, I guess. 2) When the French clock off at 6pm, they really mean it ( Guardian ) - It is now illegal to answer your boss's email after 6pm in France. Against the law to take...
Bonus Bananas April 4, 2014
1) Energy Future Plan Said to Almost Wipe Out Owners KKR to TPG ( Bloomberg ) - It's not often you see titans like KKR and Goldman Sachs take one in the seat, so I imagine there are some pretty uncomfortable conversations happening right now over this boondoggle. But you can't make an omelet without...
Bonus Bananas March 28, 2014
1) Bankers' Deaths Shine Light on Stress in Industry, Tunnel Vision ( Bloomberg ) - I realize this is a pretty morbid way to open Bonus Bananas, but it's an important discussion that could lead to some positive changes in the business. Some would argue that it already has. 2) Sad quotes from...
Bonus Bananas March 21, 2014
1) Ex-IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn To Launch Hedge Fund ( FIN Alternatives ) - Anyone who gives this clown money is not only an idiot, they're also a terrible human being. He was recently charged with "aggravated pimping" here in France, which I suppose is what he's up to in China as we speak. 2) SEC...
Bonus Bananas March 14, 2014
1) The Future of Venture Capital, Tech Valuations and the Fate of Tech Incumbents - Conversation with Bill Janeway ( Forbes ) - Very interesting conversation on the shrinking state of venture capital with one of the guys who pioneered it. If you're at all interested in VC , this one's for you. 2)...
Bonus Bananas March 7, 2014
1) Traders' stress could cause the next financial crisis ( CNBC ) - New study shows that the stress level of traders could lead to the next major financial crisis, so please guys - keep self-medicating . Substance abuse is only a problem if you're poor. 2) The Face Behind Bitcoin ( Newsweek ) -...
Bonus Bananas February 21, 2014
1) Yes, the Wealthy Can Be Deserving ( NY Times ) - When's the last time you saw anything that was actually printed in favor of the 1%? That's why I thought I'd lead with this one this week. 2) Lending Where Banks Can’t, Blackstone Thrives in Ireland ( Dealbook ) - Shadow banking at its finest....
Bonus Bananas February 14, 2014
1) The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet ( Rolling Stone ) - When is a bank no longer a bank? Matt Taibbi does it again. His analogy about letting the guys who run a Vegas sports book coach NFL teams on Sunday is right on the money. 2) Stock traders move into the...
Bonus Bananas February 7, 2014
1) Ex- SAC Trader Convicted of Securities Fraud ( Dealbook ) - With this conviction, Preet Bharara is now 79-0 against Wall Street. If I were Stevie Cohen I'd be looking to take my show on the road most ricky-fucking-tick. 2) How A Duke Undergrad With No Finance Background Got Lured By Goldman Sachs...
Bonus Bananas January 31, 2014
1) HSBC imposes restrictions on large cash withdrawals ( BBC News ) - HSBC continues to win friends and influence people, this time by refusing withdrawals of as little as £4,000 if the customer can't explain why he wants his money. Oh, and they've been doing it since November and didn't even...
Bonus Bananas January 24, 2014
1) The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs ( The Verge ) - Microsoft is sunsetting a bunch of stuff this year, but the two big ones are Windows XP and Exchange Server 2003 (which handles a ridiculous amount of email traffic to this day). How far does this move the needle...
Bonus Bananas January 17, 2014
1) Bank analysts’ M&A fantasies often feature other banks ( Quartz ) - There's a pretty fine line between spinning a fantastic yarn about a competitor's potential business dealings and manipulating a competitors stock price. Sounds like a little bit of fomenting to me. 2) RBS risk fuelling pay row...
Bonus Bananas January 10, 2014
1) Pakistani Teen Dies Stopping Bomber From Striking School ( NPR ) - Top billing this week, hands down, no question. This is what happens when courage collides with cowardice. 2) JP Morgan Pulled $275 Million Of Its Own Money From Madoff Feeder Funds Months Before His Arrest ( Business Insider ) -...
Bonus Bananas December 20, 2013
1) SAC 's Steinberg Convicted Of Insider Trading ( FIN Alternatives ) - Michael Steinberg is going down for the count. The jury was out less than two days before returning a guilty verdict on all five charges, and Steinberg now faces up to 85 years in prison. 2) Facebook, Zuckerberg Plan to Sell...
Bonus Bananas December 13, 2013
1) JPMorgan To Pay More Than $1 Billion In Madoff Deal ( FIN Alternatives ) - JPM is going to pay somewhere between $1-2 BILLION in fines to duck a criminal prosecution for their role in Madoff's fraud, and the bank will have to admit that they knew what Madoff was doing and did nothing to stop it....
Bonus Bananas November 29, 2013
1) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Avoids NC-17 Rating with Edits; Nearly 3-Hour Runtime Confirmed ( Collider ) - Officially Scorsese's longest film, The Wolf of Wall Street had to cut some of the sex and nudity to even get an "R" rating. I have to admit I'm really looking forward to this one, despite what...
Bonus Bananas November 22, 2013
1) Stupid Things Finance People Say ( The Motley Fool ) - Thought I'd lead of the week with a little humor. Some of these are hilarious in their idiocy. 2) Hedge Fund Expert Zask Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography Charges ( FIN Alternatives ) - The only reason I'm posting anything about this sick...
Bonus Bananas November 15, 2013
1) Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win ( Business Insider ) - This was pretty much the last thing I needed to read the day after learning that a 23-year old unapologetic douchebag turned his nose up at $3 BILLION cash for a nonsensical app he created less than two years...
Bonus Bananas November 8, 2013
1) Uncle Sam Takes His Dividend With JPMorgan Chase Settlements ( Forbes ) - You guys are going to find this pretty interesting. It looks like the feds are taking advantage of an obscure regulation put on the books during the S&L crisis to extract big fines and settlements from the banks that were...
Thoughts About Bonus Bananas
Obviously, for quite some time Friday Bonus Bananas have been an integral part of WSO thanks to Eddie, I've been doing Bonus Bananas these past few months in Eddies place and I thought this would be a good time to get the general consensus on what you guys and gals want out of it. 1) Do you want 10...
Bonus Bananas November 1, 2013
1) Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k ( The Guardian ) - Hands down the best story I read all week. 2) Sally Dawson, Deutsche Bank Debt Saleswoman , Dies at 39 ( Bloomberg ) - Incredibly sad, and all the more poignant because she passed in October, which is...
Bonus Bananas October 25, 2013
1) Wall Street banks learn how to survive in staged cyber attack ( Reuters ) - Remember Quantum Dawn 2? Well Wall Street kicked its ass, because Murica. 2) How young bankers really live in 2013 ( eFinancial Careers ) - It seems like 2005 was just yesterday, when you could still see ops mongoloids...
Bonus Bananas October 18, 2013
1) Bank examiner 'fired by Fed over critical report on Goldman Sachs ' ( The Telegraph ) - The first rule of FED Club: you do not talk about Goldman Sachs. Yikes. 2) Cohen To Sell Paintings ( FIN Alternatives ) - It's a sad state of affairs when you have to sell the paintings on your walls just to...
Bonus Bananas October 11, 2013
1) Cuban Case Is Poster Child For A More Aggressive SEC ( Forbes ) - I'm afraid this Forbes columnist has it all wrong. The SEC is barking up the wrong tree with Cuban, and it even looks like he did something inappropriate. But there's just no way the feds come away from this unscathed going up...
Bonus Bananas October 4, 2013
1) Lehman a 'kindergarten show' next to any default ( CNBC ) - The big news this week is the government shutdown, but that won't even be a blip on the radar if there are debt ceiling shenanigans over the next couple weeks. Does anyone doubt that the flat-Earth faction in Congress is dying to see...
Bonus Bananas September 27, 2013
1) Fed investigating whether news media leaked QE news early ( Talking Biz News ) - Some of you were wondering how I knew ahead of time that the taper was a no-go... 2) Madoff Business Partner Arrested ( FIN Alternatives ) - Better late than never, I guess. I wrote an in-depth exposé on the whole...
Bonus Bananas September 20, 2013
Any monkeys in Paris who want to get tore up from the floor up tonight, hit me up by PM. @AndyLouis and I are getting Mouffetarded tonight. Let's get it on: 1) JPMorgan Fined For Losing Money ( Bloomberg ) - By now you've no doubt heard about the almost billion-dollar fine JPMorgan was levied in the...
Bonus Bananas September 13, 2013
1) Where Is Dick Fuld Now? Finding Lehman Brothers' Last CEO ( Businessweek ) - This won't exactly evoke sympathy for Fuld, but it's at least an even-handed treatment of the once-mighty BSD who has all but vanished. Obscurity is a good look for Dick, I think. 2) Goldman Sachs Is Dividing Its Haves...
Bonus Bananas September 6, 2013
1) Fund Of Fund Manager Caught In Prostitution Bust ( FIN Alternatives ) - No matter how bad a week you've had, this poor bastard has you beat. On top of everything else, his wife is the majority shareholder in his company. What do you think his bonus review is going to be like this year? 2) Is The...
Bonus Bananas August 30, 2013
1) Has JPMorgan become a 'piñata bank'? ( CNBC ) - It sure looks that way. At the very least they're the flavor of the month over at the DOJ and SEC. 2) Ackman Takes Big Hit With J.C. Penney Sale After Grand Plan Fails ( Forbes ) - I'd love to interview Ackman, and one of the first questions I'd...
Bonus Bananas August 23, 2013
1) The boat people of Stamford vs. Ray Dalio's hedge fund ( CNBC ) - What happens when Ray Dalio hires a caustic Seattle hippie to pitch his new headquarters idea to a bunch of boat trash? Hilarity ensues, of course. 2) How Jon Oringer became Silicon Alley's first billionaire ( BBC ) - This is one...
Bonus Bananas August 16, 2013
Why I Quit My PE Job To Work at Chipotle Well, basically the guy jumps the finance ship to work at Chipotle and figures out how they work, so he can open his own rival shop serving... Indian food? A Glitch Made All The Doors In a Max Security Prison Open: With the help of surveillance tapes, it only...
Bonus Bananas August 9, 2013
Bronze Medal Ping Pong GOD Bravely Resigns From Goldman Sachs Well, this one isn't actually from this week, or even this year for that matter, but I think it's an appropriate Friday to drag up the resignation letter of former Goldman Sachs Exec Greg Smith. Why? Because it has lines like this:...
Bonus Bananas August 2, 2013
1 - Summer Intern On The Hill Gets Drunk, Loses Shoe, Stalks Paul Ryan Somewhere, the drunk, now former, summer intern is wandering the streets of DC. While he is reunited with the shoe, he will not live happily ever after. 2 - The Underground Tax Road: Goldman Sachs Edition : ( Interactive Map )...
Bonus Bananas July 26, 2013
1) Here’s how Goldman Sachs is making your beer more expensive ( Washington Post ) - Seriously, Goldman? Seriously? This strategy also disproportionately effects the poor and working class. 'Cause let's face it: the beer we drink comes in bottles. Amiright? 2) Wall Street trader drunkenly crashes...
Bonus Bananas July 19, 2013
1) Sweaty Wall Streeters Skip Booze for Spin-Class Meetings ( Bloomberg ) - You losers make me sick... 2) Bank of England suspects traders of bond-rigging ( BBC News ) - The next big story out of London. First LIBOR , now this. When are the fixed income kids gonna learn to play nice? 3) The Future...
Bonus Bananas July 12, 2013
First of all, a HUGE thank you to the literally hundreds of you who bought the book yesterday. I am overwhelmed by your enthusiasm, and the feedback I've started getting is awesome. Thank you all. Now let's get to it: 1) Let The Games Begin ( AVC ) - They might have been a year behind schedule, but...
Bonus Bananas July 5, 2013
1) IRS Challenges RenTech Tax Strategy ( FIN Alternatives ) - Pro tip: when your employer says you're probably going to be fine if you employ a particularly aggressive tax strategy, you'd better set a little aside for the fines a few years down the road. 2) Winklevoss Twins Launch IPO for...
Bonus Bananas June 28, 2013
1) Inside the epic, all-night, Goldman Sachs scavenger hunt ( Quartz ) - This is some outide-the-box teambuilding right here, and it sounds like it was a blast. 2) The 2013 Running Of The Interns ( Buzzfeed ) - Think you've got it bad as an intern? At least you're not a SCOTUS gopher. They should...
Bonus Bananas June 21, 2013
1) Return of Drunk Bernanke: What the Fed chairman might want to say, but probably won’t ( Washington Post ) - Who knew tapering could hurt this bad? 2) SEC To Push Admissions Of Wrongdoing In Some Cases ( FIN Alternatives ) - To this I say, "It's about damn time." But the proof is in the pudding,...
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