…well in marketing the credit-default swaps to Wall Street, and was getting a promotion. He would now report to Cassano directly on other strategic projects. Park …was worried about the…

rdan NYT reports: With its losses mounting, Wall Street is cutting jobs faster — and deeper — than even pessimists had feared… In one the largest single rounds of layoffs…

…include compensation limits in the recently passed Wall Street bailout measure. Are the limits a good idea? Maybe. Will it work? If history is any guide, probably not. In dollar…

…Wall Street. The outrageous bonuses, the slender returns to shareholders, the never-ending scandals, the bursting of the internet bubble, the crisis following the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management: Over and…

The Guardian reports: Financial workers at Wall Street’s top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid…

…banks were having their most profitable year ever and the geniuses on Wall Street were making enormous bonuses. The profits were being generated by effectively buying, packaging, repackaging, and selling…

…in a few places – that the mess on Wall Street is due to excessive regulation. This tripe by Richard Epstein in Forbes.com is a good example, as it contains…

…for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s….

Time for this adopted Angry Bear to go into hibernation for the winter. Events out of Alaska and now out of Wall Street make it extremely unlikely that Social Security…

The war on the working class* continues unabated By Kathy G. Proving once again why the Wall Street Journal should be required reading for all good lefties, today the paper…