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Archive for February, 2008

Beer….mmhmm

Everyone’s all about making their apartment look like a bar ( “yoooo I got a beer opener ON THE WALL!!!! im so ill….oh man my apt is so sweet now”)
What kitchen couldn’t use a beer tap too.
Coming soon
It sure beats having a 50lb keg in your kitchen. You’ll be fast on your way to getting [...]

Ivy trumps

Below, is a a breakdown of alums into undergraduate and graduate degrees from the 6 PE firms mentioned above (Blackstone, Carlyle, Bain, Silverlake, Warburg and PEP). In cases where an employee receives undergraduate and graduate degrees from the same institution.
#1 Harvard University
Undergraduate: 62
Graduate: 165
TOTAL: 227 (#1 overall)
#2 University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate: 61
Graduate: 52
TOTAL: 113 (#2 overall)
#3 [...]

Dollar….aint worth much

I’ve been looking for some dollar shorting funds (yea yea a year too late), it took a bit of digging, but here are a few:
ProFunds Rising U.S. Dollar (NASDAQ:RDPIX - News), which tracks the New York Board of Trade’s U.S. Dollar Index (USDX)
ProFunds Falling U.S. Dollar (NASDAQ:FDPIX - News), which shorts the same index [...]

The Financial report card

Your book reads like the who’s who of crap.

Number of job cuts at the Banks…..

Firm Number of Jobs Cut
Citigroup [...]

traders….make a lot of monies

Salary and Bonus Compensation database for 2007 via Trader Monthly.
Credit Derivatives
Associate (1–2 years) $70,000–$80,000 $80,000–$100,000 –14%
Associate (3rd year) $80,000–$90,000 $175,000–$200,000 -6%
V.P. $100,000–$125,000 $500,000–$600,000 -8%
Director $150,000 $1 million–$2 million -12%
MD $200,000–$250,000 $1.7 million–$2 million -5%
Position Total Compensation
Global Head $6 million
Head of Americas $3 million–$4 million

Stuff White People Like

#11 Asian Girls
95% of white males have at one point in their lives, experienced yellow fever. Many factors have contributed to this phenomenon such as guilt from head taxes, internment camps, dropping the Nuclear bomb and the Viet Nam War . This exchange works both ways as asian girls have a tendency to go for [...]

Wish list #3

Is it so much to ask to have a *murdered out Aston Martin?

I couldn’t find a real picture of one murdered out so I had to create my own. You’re looking at the very first murdered out aston in existence.
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1. murdered out
When a vehicle has both black paint and black aftermarket [...]

vault

From now until Monday midnight (12 a.m. EST Tuesday, February 26, 2007), get 25% off Vault
Gold Membership, Guides, or Career Services with the special member coupon code below:
Your coupon code is 25Vault12.
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Not sure if this is shareable…but I’d be willing to go in with someone to split the membership

Limited Time Discount
3-year subscription: $5.95/month [Was $6.95/month!]
2-year [...]

Midtown lunch

I am a big fan of not paying more than $10 for lunch, when lunch consists of of a sandwich….and not much else.
One of the best things of going into the hells kitchen area is the $1 pizzas which are right next to the $1 hotdogs.
check it -

99¢ Fresh Pizza, 151 E. 43rd St. [...]

the technical interview

For you interviews…..and mines.
One of the harder questions I received during an interview was -
“if there is a mont blanc pen hidden among 2 exact looking replicas, after you pick one of the pens, would you want to switch?”
The answer is always yes. See below for solution. The interviewer himself got the answer wrong. Sadly, [...]

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