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The recent a merger chatter between the NYSE and the Deutsche Börse got us wondering: How might life at the NYSE change under their new German management?
10. Effective immediately: No more bell ringing when Chairman David Hasselhoff has a hangover.
9. NYSE changes its tagline to “Das Equities.”
8. Sylvia Wadhwa on the cover of the annual NYSE Calendar
7. All Dark Pools will be delicious Bavarian Chocolate
6. Dick Grasso’s honorary new title: der Führer
5. Merger is the last of Germany’s wartime reparations to the Jews (And they really mean it this time!)
4. The new Art Cashin Biergarten presents ‘Stocktoberfest’!
3. Parisian counter-parties surrender rather than take the other side of trades.
2. Color-coded lederhosen for specialists, runners and floortraders.
1. Once a year, pretend Nasdaq is Poland and invade.
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by Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown
Any other changes we missed?
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I hope you admire my restraint.
If you think these are bad, you should have seen what we left, including photoshopped Hitler mustaches on Grasso
And yes, we are both Jewish!
I hope it works as well as the Daimler/Chrysler merger-
that was heaven . . .
This could have very easily taken a wrong turn – glad we eliminated a few :)
“I hope you admire my restraint. ”
Yeah Barry! I think you were a bit too soft here. While the restraint is commendable, you deprive your readers of a good laugh and an occasion to mock the powers that be.
What were you thinking huh? ;-)
Jeebus, restraint?
I always am amazed at how you blast with both barrells, and let the chips fall where they may . . .
“Is it safe”?
Have Dustin Hoffman ring the opening bell the first day!
restraint? you should Post the ones that hit the ‘Trash Can’..you know, for comparison’s sake~
though, really, this ‘transaction’ http://search.yippy.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&v%3Aproject=clusty&query=Hartford+Steam+Boiler+sold+to+Munich+Re
a total giveaway by AIG (now 92% owned by the USG), was a much bigger loss..
und you will not be late!
No lederhosen or wurst jokes?
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BR: See 2. Color-coded lederhosen for specialists, runners and floortraders.
Techno will be played on the trading floor at ear-splitting volumes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmdBhwKHGQs
i did not like your number 8 at all, better pick a swimsuit fit girl :)
I doub that
Ray Ellin at NY’s Comic Strip / Dangerfield’s is worried about you taking his stand-up slot this Friday
Barry,
Check your home page, you have this up twice.
Here’s one:
The markets will now run with precision German engineering
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BR: Weird –I’ll fix
Mergers will now be called reunifications and all stock splits will have a wall built down the center with people shot for cross trading
Bierstube mit Bratwurst und Kraut?
CME… vee are coming! Lebensraum!
Deutsche Boerse will have to change it’s logo so that the ribbon is pointing in downward direction.
No traders allowed who can’t properly pronounce the umlaut in “Borse.” (no my keyboard doesn’t have them).
HFT renamed to tra-der bahn
The trading halt system will now be replaced with yellow and red cards. The yellow card will shut down the the exchange for an hour, the red card for a day.
Extended hours will now be called ‘penalty time’
market dives will no longer be tolerated (but everyone knows they will)
High frequency traders will be given a free kick
11. Wienerschnitzel added to the Dow
12. Make 2 trades, get 1 free during Octoberfest
On a serious note, I turned on the news last nite and there was an argument being made that there’s a national security issue.. I think it was on FOX..
When you consider how the business model of the NYSE has changed since pre-Grasso days, I have no problem saying good-bye.
Replace the opening bell with tuba blast.
Beer is legal tender.
Fat lady sings at the end of the trading day.
13. Special employee scheiße film fest!
The President of the NY Fed will stand at the entrance to the floor directing traders left or right with a flick of his gleaming black riding crop. Bulls to the floor, bears to the showers.
(Can I claim the title for the most offensive offering?)
Fat lady sings at the end of the trading day.
that’s too damn funny
and TZ breaking out the double ss. when I was walking around Berlin a few years back (cool city by the way)- took me a while to figure out what the hell that letter even was
http://www.hulu.com/watch/33844/the-simpsons-the-land-of-chocolate
Equities is plural. So the correct article would be “die” rather than “das”.
IOW you should be saying “Die Equities”, which I guess means you’re calling the top.
Vergessen Sie nie, “Arbeit mach frei”
> Julia Chestnut Says: keyboard doesn’t have “umlaut” >
How to type an umlaut: hold down “Alt” and type “0246″ on the keypad (repeat: KEYPAD – I often forget):
Borse becomes Börse
You missed one!
“Ve vere just FILLING orderz!!”
Arnold Swartzenegger is on a short list for a job. Teaching city slickers the vortsprung durch technik.
submarine “dive” klaxon sounds if dow drops 100 points in an hour
hate to spoil the jollity, but singling out Silvia Wadhwa annoys me a bit, being a woman the other side of 50 who also does not pass the bathing suit test. For me she is a refreshing change from all those other women with makeup two inches thick. She is also extremely good at her job, by the way, check her out at press conferences cross-examining Trichet.
Otherwise, bring it on ! Makes me think of Bill Gross’s editorial after Allianz took over Pimco
opening bell will be replaced with Ride of the Valkyrie. Closing bell with Mozart’s requiem mass
Sgt Schultz named Head of Compliance & Investor Protection
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Sorry, # 8 is sexist. And 3 that offends my French background.
Plus, give up the worn out WW II-era jokes. German youth and even middle aged people are so much more progressive than our own population.
And the French “surrender” b.s. doesn’t coincide with the French willingness to strike rather than concede labor’s gains.
Europe is all we have standing between us and the race to the bottom, I.e. the demise of the middle class.