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What is it with trading desks and code names? Enron had memos floating around about schemes with such attractive names as "Death Star" and "Fat Man."

I'm sure these traders have a lot of fun at their job, but shouldn't it occur to them that what you're doing might be a shade on the grey side of acceptable behaviour when the most apt pet name for the scheme makes reference to a wave-motion gun or earth-shattering kaboom?

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 07:24:47 PM EST
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What is it with trading desks and code names?

Run amok testosterone is my guess. We could probably get ourselves into a regime of stability by banning males from all aspects of trading. :-)

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 09:14:04 PM EST
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