Romney considering “bonus queen” Wall St. exec for Treasury
On the Obama side, there are rumors being floated that Geithner’s replacement in a second term could be Erskine Bowles. Ugh.
Troubled lender hires troubled CEO
Sounds like a marriage made in heaven. He’s very highly respected, you know. That’s what the “insider” people are saying in the press so it has to be right. ...
Greedy Wall Street executive defends massive bonuses
Yeah, I know. Water is wet. Thain has to be one of the more repulsive slugs who slimed along on Wall Street. Even with the Merrill Lynch fiasco, he doesn’t appear to have learned ...
George Bush’s of the world, 2009 is your year
Of course this won’t have any impact on students who will need financial assistance. No, not any chance at all. The fact that schools such as Harvard have lost billions won’t ...
Merrill playing the extortion game as well
Let. Them. Leave. They’re threatening to leave in one of the worst hit markets in the global meltdown where everyone is losing money. The British economy has just been listed ...
NY judge tells Merrill to turn over bonus details
Hell yeah. It’s sickening that it had to come to this. Merrill Lynch is a company kept alive thanks to the AIG bailout and then the last second acquisition by Bank of America ...
Cuomo subpoenas the Merrill $209 million team
At least someone is taking this seriously. Heaven forbid Congress does more than a TV event for one of the most disgusting displays in modern American economic history. Cuomo ought ...
Madoff wants to keep NY penthouse, $62 million
Of course he does. If you watch what the government and companies are allowing Wall Street to keep despite all of the losses, why not? It’s crazy and disgusting but completely ...
NY courts order Merrill CEO to testify on bonus
So we are a nation of laws after all. It was starting to look like business could do anything they want, instead of the usual almost everything they want. Cuomo certainly knows how ...
Former Merrill CEO refuses to answer Cuomo’s questions
This is not going to work out well for John Thain. He’s alienated Bank of America CEO (who is also facing his own challenges) and now he’s not cooperating with Andrew Cuomo. ...



