I don’t know how Ken Lewis the man is holding up under the pressure, but I can tell you his Wall Street Journal stipple portrait is not faring well. Shades of happy/sad dot-drawings of Vikram Pandit and Hank Paulson last summer. This credit crisis is brutal, even on cartoons.
Here was the Lewis dot-portrait that accompanied a January 16 story headlined “Lewis Defends Merrill Purchase”
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All good. But by the next day, the pressure was evidently taking its toll as the embattled Bank of America chief “went on offense”:
Whoa, stipple Ken. Your dots are bunched way too tight. Relax those lines, man. Add some naphtha to the mix. Or have you considered acupuncture? At a minimum, the Audit recommends some stipple shiatsu and a long walk on a pen-and-ink beach landscape.
My favorite WSJ Stipple-ology pastime the past eight years has been watching the rotating cast of dot portraits the Journal used for President Bush. You could tell when he was in disfavor with the Editorial Board, because that is when the used the portrait that was the spitting image of Alfred E. Neuman.
#1 Posted by The Epicurean Dealmaker, CJR on Tue 27 Jan 2009 at 10:37 AM
Ken Lewis B of A CEO, says that credit markets will loosen up again by next year sometime, which we’d hope for—we paid for the rescue package from the Treasury Department with our taxes. It is said that small business owners considered that are at times the most dependent on short term credit. The backbone of the economy was the small business which is an American tradition. The Bank of America all started out small and looks for installment loans for funding is now included in giant multinationals. So when the huge firms so many small businesses depend on flounder, people lose confidence. Short term loans are one of the tools that help small business thrive.
#2 Posted by Nigel I., CJR on Thu 14 May 2009 at 05:37 AM