The Wild Wild World of Wealth |
"My job is the occupation formerly known as 'stockbroker.' But it has been years since anyone called me that. Stockbroker sounds oily. Glengarry Glen Ross. The word makes clients twitch..."
Norb Vonnegut | January 12, 2010
Obama Weighs Tax on Banks to Cut Deficit
Wall Street’s public relations are a train wreck. I have no prior experience in corporate communications. But here’s my action plan to clean up the mess:
CEOs, fire your PR people. They suck.
Shut up, Lloyd, about doing “God’s work.” Nobody buys it, not even the religious right. And now [...]
Norb Vonnegut | January 2, 2010
Iceland, at 1.32 times 2008 GDP
51 bottles of cheap vodka for every Russian, babies included
1,629,460 years of public school, K-12
400,000 gastric bypass surgeries
611,111 free passes for Irish atheists to blaspheme*
Avatar tickets for everyone living in China, the United States, Indonesia, and Japan combined
One week at New York’s Four Seasons Hotel for every homeless person in [...]
Norb Vonnegut | January 2, 2010
I just saw Lake Superior State University’s (“LSSU”) 35th annual list of words or expressions that should be banned. The committee attacks slang sweeping through our culture like “tweeting,” “sexting,” or the ever popular “chillaxin,” which is a cross between “chillin” and “relaxin.”
