Comments on: Risk in our Doomsday Device Fund

By: Dead_Cat

Dead_Cat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:49:07 +0000

Doomsday within the next 50-100 years is inevitable. Only question is how best to exploit it / hedge it. Scottish real estate is reasonably appealing given its elevated situation, soon-to-be temperate climate and the tendency of cephalopods to avoid Scots, due to their extremely high cholesterol content.

By: american bandersnatch

american bandersnatch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:50:53 +0000

Any thoughts on whether doomsday risk has receded with the Fed’s arrest of Octopussy and NJ’s Tuesday rejection of one of the minions of the Vampire Squid? Are they leading indicators of mankind’s pushback against cephalopod dominance?

By: Dead_Cat

Dead_Cat — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:31:02 +0000

That sounds like an impractical level of working capital for your GP. Assuming you’re charging 2%-2.5% management fee, you’d need hundreds of billions of AUM to maintain that set-up as a GP asset, ex-fund. Which you don’t have, I reckon. I’ll just wait for your GP to fold. And perhaps buy the system from your creditors for my fund.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:11 +0000

Yale. Funny. Does anyone still go there?

By: Jack D. Ripper

Jack D. Ripper — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:44:50 +0000

Well, he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine. That whole Yale thing.

By: Timothy Bryce

Timothy Bryce — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:43:12 +0000

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

By: Patrick Bateman

Patrick Bateman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:40:21 +0000

Mr. President, I’m beginning to smell a big fat Commie rat.

By: american bandersnatch

american bandersnatch — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:21:42 +0000

It was to be announced at the Investor Annual Meeting on Monday. As you know, the Managing Director loves surprises.

By: raf_oh

raf_oh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:36:14 +0000

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didnt you tell the world, EH?