You keep on using the phrase “my recruiter”. I don’t think that is a helpful perspective. Also, while “the company” may not care, I can assure you that somewhere within that company there are people who are paid to care about headhunter bills. Quite possibly including the hiring manager, whose budge...

Well, in my experience (but as the saying used to go, YMMV) you don’t have a recruiter, the hiring manger does. He, she, or they is/are paying the bill and have a very good claim to obtain value for their money. If you encounter a recruiter who expects you to pay the bill, the advice is “run!”. So t...

The French side will retire?

Have you tried to inquire with a barber as to whether you need a haircut? But seriously, as a hiring manager (which I have been on dozens of occasions), I would prefer a direct approach or, even better, a referral from my network to a referral from a headhunter. That being said, at least three of my...

There are technically three separate but closely related concepts at work here: business day conventions (like modified following), holiday calendar (like NY banks), and daycount convention (like 30/360). Each has real life subtleties, so the combinatorics can easily get out of hand.

Did you know that two or more black swans together on land or in the water can be properly referred to as a bank?

My reading of most of these studies is that rather than inquiring about actual happiness (which is probably really hard to pin down), they add up a lot of vaguely related statistics and then tell people: “look at your great numbers - you should be happy, damnit!”

And, lest there be any doubt, I’d be pretty comfortable killing any of the Trumpian hooligans out there. Which is just about where we are now. This is not like that little Brexit joke to which our sponsor is so committed. That only screwed a few million people. Whatever! Trump is a festering sore of...

So, barriers are up downtown to restrict the Trump mob, just in case he is arraigned tomorrow. Of course, in a reasonable world he would be on death row in a federal prison somewhere, but a few nights at Rikers Island wouldn’t be all that bad. OK, a pale substitute, but we’ll take whatever crumbs we...

And then there was one. Of course, connoisseurs of the relevant literature know what comes next. “He went and hanged himself, and then there were none.”

Is it just me, or does she look a little bit like someone around here?

Govert. But it has been almost 7 years…

Disregarding the noise in this thread, repo’ing held-to-maturity securities for the purpose of meeting a coordinated (thank you, Peter Thiel!) flood of deposit withdrawals is a rather temporary solution. I believe they went with FHLB advances instead, but that’s also a short term thing. Given the ma...

In the US, Labor Day is observed on the first Monday of September. I think mostly to separate it from the memory of the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the International socialist movement. And, of course, it’s roughly halfway between the two other major holidays: Independence Day and Thanksgiving!

Prompt: Can you give me a catchy announcement to present you to the world? Please don’t mention the singularity.