Etcetera

November 17, 2008

Tyler Brûlé is opening a shop.

Adolf Merckle lost a lot of money by shorting Volkswagen.

Twilight has a lot of teenage girl fans.

November 17th, 2008 in Etcetera | Permalink

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  1. Herr Merckle is now asking the German government for a “Bürgschaft” i.e. to stand surety for him/act as his guarantor, presumably to prevent a forced sale of the family firm?

    P.S. Is it true that Goldman Sachs got $10B
    out of the TARP? Yet GS boss Mr Blankfein collected ca. $67million for 2007…

    At UBS bonuses are to be frozen for several years to ensure that, if risk decisions by management turn sour by producing huge losses at later dates, no “frozen” bonuses will be paid
    out. And henceforth there will be no bonuses AT ALL for the UBS supervisory board members.

    Posted by: J.J. | November 17th, 2008 at 6:39 pm | Report this comment

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