Those high-rises that moved into Manhattan Beach

[John Bailey]

Do you remember the name of the book, Mark? Sounds like a good read.

As an aside, I went to see the disaster-porn flick 2012 yesterday on a
whim, and it starts out with the destruction of Manhattan Beach, home
of our Everyman hero Jackson (writer of conspiracy scifi novel
"Farewell Atlantis"). He's introduced by a copy of Moby Dick next to
his bed. It's all a nice way to get a glimpse of those mean streets
Pynchon walked down (which then get shredded).

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have speed-read a book on the economic collapse of Iceland during the recent Crisis. Sad, interesting, outrage-producing story about a fascinating-enough country I knew little about.
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> And one of the outrageous bits is this: There is evidently a company in Manhattan Beach now, maybe named Global Advisers--I have already returned the book so can't check--which is interlocked (in that great GR word) with around 50 hedge funds.
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> They analyze the financial shit and write a shinola newsletter and, as the economic downturn started, they issued a 'Short the Krona [Iceland's' currency] newsletter which their hedge fund assassins did, causing a run which many of them--right out of GR--swaggered around bragging about. "We brought Iceland down".
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> Or What the toilet says, as GR (and AtD) is always saying.
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