Pertinent Observations

neuberger berman: $ 2 * 10^9
lehman NY: $ 2 * 10^8
lehman Asia: $ 2 * 10^8
lehman fixed income europe: $ 2 * 10^0

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I want to apologize to my readers for the drastic drop in quality of my posts over the last one month. The problem is that so far I haven’t had net at home, and hence have had to blog from work. And it is extremely difficult here to concentrate on writing.
Most of my posts in [...]

A while back (maybe around the time when I moved to this blog from LJ), I made a decision that I will reform my blogging. No personal rants. No bitching. No slander. I’ve managed to get by quite well without the personal rants. I take out my frustrations elsewhere, and my readers are happy that [...]

On Sunday I got my new house cleaned. Some three bongs came to do the job and the first thing they wanted was some consumables. “Tezaab, saarof aur bhim powder”, one of them said. The first was understandable – I clearly remember from the posters of the Anil Kapoor – Madhuri Dixit starrer (incidentally the [...]

Or should I say ex-Lehman employees? Assuming that most of you haven’t been fired yet, I’ll drop the ex. I know that a couple of days back, I wished for your company’s demise. That had nothing to do with you. I wished for that because I thought that was the right thing to be done. [...]

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been staying with some relatives. For most of this period, my aunt has been out of town, and so there’s no “natural choice” to cook (my 24-year old female cousin has put total NED wrt cooking, and so has my uncle). So my uncle arranged for a professional [...]

But Lehman has to go. In the “larger interests” of continuing a vibrant, risktaking and efficient worldwide financial system, it is best that the Fed does not bail out Lehman.
I had written about this a few months back, in hindsight, after Bear was bailed out by Fed who arranged for a hurried takeover by JP [...]

Shamanth was kind enough to send me this picture:

and the word “tattoo” originates in polynesia. the concept, as we know it, too, it seems.

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Ok i know i’ve blogged this before. It was sometime in December 06, and it was on my old blog. About situations where you meet two people who know each other, and you don’t nkow how they know each other. And then it’s the time for long explanations and all that.
The same happens online also.  [...]

If you look back at the history of missionary activity, you will find that most successful activity has happened when there has been active backing by the state. Missionaries have generally piggybacked on conquests in order to spread the message of their version of God. The other popular method has been to impress upon and [...]