“He is the man who nearly broke the bank … and who is fast becoming a hero to millions of his compatriots.”
French rally behind rogue trader as fraud scandal spreads | Business | The Observer
I had ten adults in my flat yesterday and we all discussed “the scandal”; not one person referred to anyone in the affair as a “hero”. This morning at work I see even less sign that he’s a hero!
Who makes this stuff up?
blog.pmarca.com: Great moments in journalism, Risk Magazine edition
“Risk Magazine — the finance industry magazine focused on risk management — presented, this very month, its Equity Derivatives House of the Year award for 2008 to… ta daa… Societe Generale.”
You can’t make things like this up.
I suppose that this the related to the curse of the Fortune cover. You know the one, boss appears on the cover of Fortune and a week later sales plummet.