I had caviar & apple juice with Mo Islam, Stuy high's $72 million kid trader, & other future masters of the universe http://t.co/CGvc7UyejW
— Jessica Pressler (@jpressler) December 15, 2014
Layers of factcheckers: Was the kid’s track record audited? The acclaimed financial journalist and author of the New York article, Jessica Pressler, appears to have … no idea.
So it seems.
But … But … 72 million is close to 0. Racist.
The kid’s got all the makings for a successful politician, or a position with the IPCC.
Or maybe MSM wanted to promote a success story of a specific cultural identity? Possibly an identity that’s been generating a lot bad press on it’s own.
Sounds dead on to me. The fallout is beautiful though:
“The people I’m most sorry for is my parents. I did something where I can no longer gain their trust. I have one sister, two years younger, and we don’t really talk.”
Perfect poster boy for the MSM, who will now discard him like a dirty dishrag. You have to love it.
Caviar and orange juice? Either bogus or extremely weird. I wouldn’t trust anyone who ate/drank that combination.
Wait a minute, these children are American Patriots.
They lied to a presstitute and succeeded in making it bite.
Very good fishing.
After all the media gloats about lying to us, what these two did was return the favour.
Sure looks good on the MSM idiots, as in do not forget the editor.
These boys did do one thing: they proved yet again that the popular press is gullible.
I’m sure Miss Pressler is waiting for a fat man in a red suit to arrive next week.
Exactly, we need more of this not less. The more they get punked, the more people will wake up.
No presents for you. Enjoy your lump of twisty bulb.
New York magazine is about to lose a star in Jessica Pressler, who’s heading to Bloomberg News to join the financial wire’s investigative unit. Pressler confirmed the move to Capital, telling us she’ll be focusing on long-form stories about financial personalities and “the culture of wealth and money.” She’ll be starting in mid-January or early February depending on when she wraps her final New York assignment.
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She said caviar and apple juice.
Mind you, she also said the kid made $72million and he didn’t, so maybe she can’t tell orange from apple, either.
Well, I never made $72 million on the stock market, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once.
Anyone know a brokerage where you can open an account before you’re 18?
Anyone know a brokerage who would let someone under 18 buy that much stock under margin?
The IRS and SEC would certainly have something to say if he had holdings worth 72 million, the dividends and capital gains on his stock holdings would be worth a pretty penny to the tax collectors and the SEC would be all over the how’s and why’s.
Mr. Islam, this is your brokerage calling. You have 24 hours to pay up on your margin call.
Kinda like that other student, Jesus Christian, who blew his rent money on white privilege lottery tickets.
“Mo Islam” ???
Sniff, sniff – euwwww, don’t need wind to carry the fumes from that steaming heap -the only types who can’t smell it are those media-lobotomized zombies who love swimming in the shite-us
‘he’d have needed to average a compounded annualized return of something like 796% over the three years since. C’mon, man’
The media and the pesky numbers thing; happens a lot.
A wealth of 8 figures – 88 cents ha!. But it was a good narrative wasn’t it?
he was just practicing taqiyya.
Like most reporters she probably doesn’t do math or science. Plus love those Muslim up with people stories.
at a time we used to say , “if you cant do it teach it”. now , “if you cant do it – report it ”
useless is as useless does
Seventy-two million, and he couldn’t even afford a good barber?
So what, she wrote the story, she gets the credit, without recrimination when it turns out to be fake. “Journalists” have no accountability.
“The rule of 72 (financial), 72 billions, 72 virgins – life is just a fantasy, let us have our fantasy life…”
Channeling ~ Aldo Nova.
Guess she’ll fit right in at Bloombergs.
What a winner Jessica thought she had – this 17 year old Muslim, with the perfect Muslim name – Mohammed Islam – complete with Sunnah beard. Astonishingly Jessica described the young Mo as ‘cherubic’. Take a look at a picture of the bearded Mo and ask yourself whether cherubic is the first term that comes to mind.
Jessica knew, she just knew, that she’d show these right wing racists how good these wonderful Muslims and, by God, she’d do it in style by showing young Mo’s wonderful achievement. I mean 72 million virgins er… bucks is nothing to sneeze at. Fact checking? We don’t need any stinking fact checking. Muslims never lie and if you think otherwise you are racist.
Pity the whole thing turned out to be a crock.
But hey that’s how things roll. A quick apology and then off to Bloomberg to continue fearlessly and objectively reporting on business stories in the future.