In these days of Pooh bear markets, could a single bullet have pulled off the so-called fraude of the decade leaving La sociėtė gėnėrale dazed and out of pocket. I don’t think so. I suggest that this benign bullet (ferdinand?), let’s call him Jėrôme Kerviel, has agreed to take the rap for the reckless behaviour of his bunk bank in return for some kind of compensation down the road to perdition. It seems that whilst in la cage aux faûx of la société he was selling shorts when he should have been buying them and buying longs that were too short to cover his ass. Now le pen will greet him with open gait and a swinging bat. Unless of course some Jacques Rubie-style vigilante, self-appointed? rep for all the angry investors bent on restoring the lost honneur to la république, takes him out for dineros.

Bear* with me,

Naan

*Ursa major

12 Responses to “La sociėtė gėnėrale and the single bullet theory. (advisory: likely contains bullshit)”

  1. shearluck holmes Says:

    I believe Kerviel’s ‘actions” to be a little too derivative of Nick Leeson’s who brought down his bank baring all. Dr. Watson (Paul) will get to the bottom of this.

  2. zbignose Says:

    the maths bankers use
    defy probability
    forclose and seven

  3. aliengreenspam Says:

    tao skitterish as polar bears predict recession of ice cap.


  4. Kerviel is French for Knievel. Evel- Evil.
    If you’re looking for a smoking Gouda, then I suggest The Grim-Aldis. France bet 50 million Euros on Impair- and lost. They crossed the Maginot line of betting.Nick Leeson, it’s Liam Neeson and that’s why they had to dispose of all ledgers in the cliff beneath the heath

  5. zbignose Says:

    bear nor bull still apt
    wild boar more apropos or
    sedentary swine

  6. lotsalenya Says:

    macheath vas in der bugger’s opera by dat gay john & bert.

  7. h.whoever Says:

    the sheikhs & shingle mullet theory : shakedown at every gaspump, bad haircuts, stern bears in your r.s.p.

  8. Twee Says:

    We are not the Algonquin. More like Chester Conklin

  9. zbignews Says:

    I sense a bit of fraudenfreude in the americas. The original post here is such a cornucopia of ideas, I hope that it doesn’t become a target of some literate version of its subject like some sort of klein bottle of prose.


  10. What’s a bottle of prose?

  11. kurtsweill&vonnegut Says:

    give the fiddler a dram of that prose water. god bless you mister.

  12. Tabo & Becky Says:

    I’m confused & out of the loop. I get IED & IUD mixed up


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