John Paulson: Let them eat cake!

[Sallow]

I posted this in another thread..but decided it's a good topic.

But ya gotta love the balls on John Paulson.
Keep Antagonizing John Paulson And Maybe He Takes His Ball And Goes Offshore « Dealbreaker: Wall Street Insider

“The top 1% of New Yorkers pay over 40% of all income taxes, providing huge benefits to everyone in our city and state. Paulson & Co. and its employees have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in New York City and New York State taxes in recent years and have created over 100 high paying jobs in New York City since its formation. New York currently has the highest income taxes of any state in the country and thousands of businesses have fled New York to states with no income taxes such as Florida, Texas and Nevada, or moved offshore.

Instead of vilifying our most successful businesses, we should be supporting them and encouraging them to remain in New York City and continue to grow.”
Apparently organizers of the march were not swayed and after choosing not to take the advice, made their planned stop at Paulson’s townhouse, where they left him a (slightly mixed) message of their own.

[JustinElliot via BI]

Sure, it could be sarcasm but maybe it’s a dare? In which case, you picked the wrong guy to take a risk on cashing that thing.

John Paulson Has A Message For The Protestors [BI]

Paulson & Co.’s Credit Opportunities fund, the one that shorted U.S. the subprime mortgage market and made Paulson a fortune, is down 1 percent for August.

Mortgage-Shorting Billionaire John Paulson’s Hedge Fund Down Big This Year | The New York Observer

Mortgage-Shorting Billionaire John Paulson’s Hedge Fund Down Big This Year | The New York Observer

Unreal.

In a different time and place, like France circa 1789, he'd be frog marched to a Guillotine.

 

[elvis]

any relation to hank paulson, by chance?

 

[Sallow]

any relation to hank paulson, by chance?

Interestingly enough..Vanity Fair has an article about this!

Are You Hank Paulson or John A. Paulson, or Both? | Blogs | Vanity Fair

Are You Hank Paulson or John A. Paulson, or Both?If you attended Harvard Business School:

You are both!

Hank received an M.B.A. from H.B.S., as did John.

If you benefited from the financial crisis:

You are John!

While Hank made Time’s list of “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis,” John profited when “mortgage bonds collapsed.”

If you are publicly critical of Hank Paulson:

You are both!