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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Tag Archives: hedge-funders in jail
A Wikipedia for investors
Now we have Valuewiki, a reader-built knowledge base for Wall Street confidence men to steal the money that we’ve neglected to spend on Jack Daniels and Oxycontin. The site works much like Wikipedia.org — anyone can contribute and edit existing … Continue reading
Hurry, Hurry Get Yer Undervalued Stocks
Controlled Greed is a Virginia-based blog that specializes in identifying undervalued stocks, says editor John Bethel. That we spent time reading his blog is good reason for you stay far away from us and John Bethel’s picks. Financially-speaking, we have … Continue reading
Another LSD Flashback
You heard it here first. John M. Angelo and Michael Gordon, chief honchos of meglo-hedge fund Angelo, Gordon & Co. (which describes itself as “specialists in non-traditional investments” and manages $12 billion in assets, and, we kid you not, has … Continue reading
Find this man a jail cell.
We don’t know a derivative contract from an IPO, but we do have some idea how much $5 billion is–roughly 5000 times what we’ve earned in our best year. $5 billion is how much hedge-funder Brian Hunter lost for Amaranth … Continue reading
Beavis and Butt-head Do Wall Street
RECHARGER WANTS TO KNOW — ARE WE ALL SUCKERS? Can we not tell the difference between an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize in economics? Reading an account of the book When Genius Failed on Underthecounter.com, gets us thinking: could … Continue reading