{"id":184689,"date":"2012-02-13T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/epic-snark\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:46:00","slug":"epic-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/epic-snark\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/my-application-for-head-of-public-relations-goldman-sachs\/\">puts in his application to be head of corporate communications for the Vampire Squid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To: Hiring Committee, Goldman Sachs<br \/>From: Barry Ritholtz<br \/>Re:&nbsp; Position, Head of Public Relations, Goldman Sachs<br \/>Date: February 13, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Gentlemen:<\/p>\n<p>Now that your public relations chief, Lucas van Praag is (finally!)  retiring, it is time for the executive committee to seriously rethink  the position of PR head. To be blunt, your efforts have not been up to  the level of excellence that one would expect from Goldman Sachs. It  would be impolite to speak ill of the job done by LVP has done under  challenging circumstances, but you gentlemen need to face the facts, and  fast. On his watch, the firm\u2019s reputation has suffered, its ability to  recruit top talent has been compromised, and its market cap has gotten  shellacked.<\/p>\n<p>In short, your PR efforts have performed about as well as the <strong>ABACUS<\/strong>  2007-AC1 \u2013&nbsp; the John Paulson created mortgage bundle that cratered. Or,  about as well as John Paulson\u2019s fund in 2011, which also cratered (I am  seeing a pattern here).<br \/><em>All of which says, you guys have really stunk the joint up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is with great pleasure that I toss my hat into the ring for the position of <strong>Director of Communications for Goldman Sachs<\/strong>.  Not only do I have the requisite skill set to help rehabilitate the  image of the 100+ year old firm \u2014 media savvy, legal smarts, netizen,  with just a dollop of snark \u2014 but I believe I can help you move  gracefully into the new century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just read the rest.  It&#8217;s da bomb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Ritholtz puts in his application to be head of corporate communications for the Vampire Squid: To: Hiring Committee, Goldman SachsFrom: Barry RitholtzRe:&nbsp; Position, Head of Public Relations, Goldman SachsDate: February 13, 2012 Gentlemen: Now that your public relations chief, Lucas van Praag is (finally!) retiring, it is time for the executive committee to seriously &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1002,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}