Fuck yeah it’s good news! Bloomberg’s suitably breathless Andy Hoffman has the scoop: The collapse in cryptocurrencies is easing supply of the most sought after watches on the second-hand market, depressing prices for hard-to get-Patek Philippe and Rolex models. The supply of trophy watches such as the Rolex Daytona or Patek Nautilus 5711A “is now…
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Shorter Mike Bloomberg: Yes, I am an arrogant, self-involved, racist, anti-Muslim, authoritarian billionaire! But I’m not as bad as Donald Trump!
The sad thing is, everything in that headline is true. I would take Mike over Trump, though by a damned small margin. Not only does Bloomberg have a record of obvious racism, blame-shifting with regard to the provenance of the Great Recession, authoritarian longings, and a frenzied Likudist/interventionist take on foreign affairs, as mayor he…
Headline o’ the Day
Over at Bloomberg, we read the following “Crock-Pot Maker’s Activist Defense Needs More Cooking”. You’re funny, Mike, you’re funny! You’re a funny man!
P. T. Bloomberg: There’s a sucker born every nano-second
That must be the slogan over at Bloomberg, judging from the posts from such market seers as Ted Seides, Ben Carlson, and Barry Ritholtz. In “Why I Lost My Bet With Warren Buffett”, Ted “explains” why he lost the bet he made with Warren Buffet ten years ago, a bet that “pitted the returns of…
Money don’t buy applause? Frank Sinatra, Meet Michael Bloomberg
Frank Sinatra, still hitting the road in his seventies, was asked why he was continuing to perform, when he was both richer than sin and too old to engage in it. Didn’t he have all the money he would ever need? “Money don’t applaud,” said Frankie. Well, that was then. Now, money do applaud, or…
Acela Republicans Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Egos!
Yeah, like that’s going to happen! David Brooks, who’s been pretty damned tired of being a member of the, well, the Yahoo Party, wants to be able to go to a party and have a glass of decent port* without getting an earful of Jesus at the same time. So now he wants to have…
Put down thy Slurpee, Pick up thy Tit
I really don’t know the details of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s war against what we liberals like to call “Big Soda,” but I do know I’m agin it. If you want to chug down a half gallon of corn syrup-sweetened soda water in one sitting, well, it’s your ass, not mine. But Mayor B’s soda…
Michael Bloomberg: Dumber than the Kochs? Or just more unscrupulous?
What is it about having billions and billions of dollars? Does it make you stupid? As well as, you know, totally corruupt? Recently, New York Mayor for as long as I damn well feel like it Michael Bloomberg, sounding drunker than Rick Perry, let fly with this one (via counterparties): “It was not the banks…
Pish-Posh at the Knish-Nosh, and Other New York Horrors
You know that little pond in Central Park next to the Alice in Wonderland statue, the pond that Big and Carrie fell into when Big tried to kiss Carrie and she didn’t want him to (because Amanda told her not to let him)? Well, it’s drained right now, which takes away a little from the…