This charmless message prompted an angry underling to set up a fake Twitter account in Soden's name with tweets that say “I love my life” and “Analyst slacking again.
In some contexts (the analysis of financial leases, for example) depreciation tax shields are treated as safe, nominal cash flows and are discounted at an aftertax borrowing or lending rate.
The striking development is not that the veracity of some is open to doubt, but that this forgivingly collusive arrangement has now broken down: not the fact of lying, but the naming of it.