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Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:54 pm
by MediumTex
Has anyone noticed the smug expressions that a lot of these big bank CEO-types seem to wear much of the time?
It's like the inferiority of the rest of the world is highly annoying to them.
Robert Rubin (Citi):
Jimmy Cayne (Bear Stearns):
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:01 pm
by MediumTex
Dick Fuld (Lehman Brothers):
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:04 pm
by MediumTex
John Mack (Morgan Stanley):
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:09 pm
by MediumTex
John Thain:
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:12 pm
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Lloyd Blankfein:
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:19 pm
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Larry Summers:
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:22 pm
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Ken Lewis:
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:26 pm
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Jamie Dimon:
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:30 pm
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Anthony Mozilo (Countrywide):
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:41 pm
by MediumTex
Hank Paulson:
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:03 pm
by MediumTex
Doing a quick check of where are all that jackassery and smugness got them:
- Bear Stearns: Dead, killed by peers for sport and entertainment.
- Lehman Brothers: Dead.
- Countrywide: Dead, and in the process of poisoning Bank of America as well.
- Merrill Lynch: Crippled, sent to Bank of America rehab center.
- Bank of America: In the process of dying of its own arrogance and stupidity.
- Citi: Permanent vegetative state.
- Goldman Sachs: Dead, but for the fact that former CEO was Treasury Secretary and saw to it that it was saved; will survive, like a cockroach after a nuclear blast.
- Morgan Stanley: Alive.
- JP Morgan: Alive.
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That's not much of a track record for a group of guys who think so highly of themselves.
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:34 am
by Lone Wolf
MediumTex wrote:
Dick Fuld (Lehman Brothers):
Fuld looks like he's got an ax behind his back. *shudder*
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:54 am
by craigr
LOL. I see this turning into a sticky.
I'd like this thread more if we could see these guys as mugshots.
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:05 am
by Storm
Lone Wolf wrote:
MediumTex wrote:
Dick Fuld (Lehman Brothers):
Fuld looks like he's got an ax behind his back. *shudder*
Wow, he could be the real life "American Psycho" (great movie, by the way).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Patrick Bateman: Harold, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:41 am
by Lone Wolf
Storm wrote:
Lone Wolf wrote:
Fuld looks like he's got an ax behind his back. *shudder*
Wow, he could be the real life "American Psycho" (great movie, by the way).
Ha, you're right! Good movie and great performance (as usual) by Christian Bale.
That scene with the business cards was especially amusing.
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:53 pm
by MediumTex
Lone Wolf wrote:
Storm wrote:
Lone Wolf wrote:
Fuld looks like he's got an ax behind his back. *shudder*
Wow, he could be the real life "American Psycho" (great movie, by the way).
Ha, you're right! Good movie and great performance (as usual) by Christian Bale.
That scene with the business cards was especially amusing.
Yep. Great movie.
Lots of great scenes, but I like the one where Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to be Square" is playing in his apartment while he is enjoying the company of a young lady.
Re: Smug Banker Mugs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:17 pm
by AdamA
MediumTex wrote:
Lots of great scenes, but I like the one where Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to be Square" is playing in his apartment while he is enjoying the company of a young lady.
That is a great scene. Also great is the business card scene and the opening scene, where he is describing the various creams and exfoliants he uses every morning.