Elizabeth Spiers’s Wall Street: Not So Jewish
Take a look at DealBreaker, the new business-gossip site, and it gives off an air heavy in, I don’t know, what is it? Oh, yes: foreskin.
In the many posts since the the site’s launch, it’s managed one aside about The Fed’s new Jew in charge, and at Jewish best the hope that a couple (Gary Weiss: Could be. David Weidner: maybe) analysts are part of the J-pop. In the meantime, she’s got stuff about some hippie named Paulson, a writer named Muffie (Muffie!), and a suggestion that WASPs rule the Street.
Go back before the launch, and you’ve got more Scientologist than Yiddishist, names like Thomas H. Lee (the very white fellow pictured), and even a guy in a sombrero.
You have to go far back before the launch date to find Martin Frankel, “the Greenwich-based money manager with a history of sexual perversion and money-laundering. For a period in the late 1990’s he claimed to speak with total authority on matters of investments.” Finally, a Jew!
Keep scrolling down in the pre-launch posts, and it’s a relative Jew-fest for a period. Five paragraphs on Ivan Wilzig (and he’s wearing the cape); Bernanke’s wife hiding her age; Eisner and Spitzer in the same morning!
So, what happened — why have the Jews become so little a part of this Wall Street World? Were we perhaps wrong all along about Jewish dominance in the field? Are WASPy first-years cracking wise on smoking breaks, joking “Illuminati? More like Illusionati!”?
Well, maybe there’s some hope. Spiers mentions Eisner again today, in a James Cramer two-fer, and then notes that the only “Most Loathsome” Streeter is our very own Ron Perelman. Yay! All is not lost.
Good Jewish boys: there’s only one way to get noticed in this world. Start flipping desks, throwing phones, and sexually-harassing some leggy blonde shiksas, and someday soon, the Jews shall rise again.