Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Hedge Fund < Weed



In the hyper-aggressive world of hedge-fund management, one man has risen above the crop. His accomplishments include turning a 1000% profit in one year, predicting the sub-prime mess, and writing the greatest goodbye letter of all time:

I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America

Trashing the Ivy League for their intelligence and their attitude? Go on...

I am content with my rewards. Moreover, I will let others try to amass nine, ten or eleven figure net worths. Meanwhile, their lives suck.

And what, Mr. Lahde, will you do with your time?

Marijuana. It gets you high, it makes you laugh, it does not produce a hangover. Unlike alcohol, it does not result in bar fights or wife beating. So, why is this innocuous plant illegal? Is it a gateway
drug? No, that would be alcohol, which is so heavily advertised in this country. My only conclusion as to why it is illegal, is that Corporate America, which owns Congress, would rather sell you Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax and other additive drugs, than allow you to grow a plant in your home without some of the profits going into their coffers.

Is this guy in need of a nephew? I'm taking on new uncles, and he sounds like he could use somebody to fight trust fund students at no additional charge.

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