Diary of an international investment banker: Boom-bang-a-bang – the great Euro contest

Jean-Claude Komarovsky watches in horror as a severe lapse of taste seizes the Euromarket. There's singing, there's dancing, there's also a bottom line

JJ Ingersoll, our head of global focus, has just had a wonderful idea. Our chairman came down and made him a huge bet that he couldn’t think of a trade that would return the firm to profitability in the second quarter. What a bet!

He chose the right person. JJ is no shoeshine-boy from the Midwest. The great JJ spat on his shoe, twanged a brace, then got out his dick and swung it.

Eighteen, maybe 19 seconds later, JJ said, “Heh, maybe we should sponsor a contest.”

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