Joined Dec 1, 2015
135 Blog Posts
© Copyright 2007-2024 iBankCoin All rights reserved under penalty of bodily harm. DISCLAIMER: This is a personal web site, reflecting the opinions of its author(s). It is not a production of my employer, and it is unaffiliated with any FINRA broker/dealer. Statements on this site do not represent the views or policies of anyone other than myself. The information on this site is provided for discussion purposes only, and are not investing recommendations. Under no circumstances does this information represent a recommendation to buy or sell securities. DATA INFORMATION IS PROVIDED TO THE USERS "AS IS." NEITHER iBankCoin, NOR ITS AFFILIATES, NOR ANY THIRD PARTY DATA PROVIDER MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND REGARDING THE DATA INFORMATION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE. Privacy Policy
Shkreli. It would be a good name for a character in Star Wars.
I prefer what you have said about this financial media character because I sense that you have some little bit of sympathy for this Financial Frankenstein monster. I always felt sorry for the monster in the novel; it sounds awful but I felt the same even after he tossed the bratty little boy in the river; conundrum or is my moral compass wobbly?
Digression: I was listening to R.L Burnside last night who was convicted of shooting a man. He supposedly was quoted as saying, “I didn’t mean to kill nobody … I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”
I’ve noticed the repetition of the same character analysis of Shkreli. It could be as accurate as the atomic clock but the repetitiveness of it turns on the contrarian in me.
He created a character meme for himself that the financial media is feasting upon. Will it burn bright until the movie comes out and Shkreli will be happy to take all the contacts he’s made, all the experience he has gained and then retire into anonymity and continue to work his thing from behind the curtain?
On his blog, Howard Lindzon called him a putz but based on what he wrote I couldn’t tell if he was calling him a putz based on his financial high jinx or his personality. I finished the article thinking Howard Lindzon believes he is a putz because he broke a financial code of public behavior. I’m a cynic. http://www.howardlindzon.com/martin-shkreli-just-another-putz/
There is definitely an accepted, financial code of behavior, that addresses the dark side of financial engineering.
Ugh! Comma splicing.
I don’t think Shkreli thinks he did anything wrong. What he’s probably slowly realizing is that it doesn’t matter. Neither did Martha Stewart.
Yikes! Rhymes with spikes!