My Dinner With the 1 Percent
Sep 4, 2014 "Why don't you simply do what other rich folks do? Hide your money offshore so you don't have to pay any taxes." Laughter erupted at the table at my sarcastic comment and my question remained unanswered.
Take the U.S. Inequality Quiz
Jun 28, 2011 Think you have the dirt on inequality in America? Jeffrey Rudolph, a college accounting professor in Montreal, has crafted an extensive quiz stocked full of hard facts and figures from a range of authoritative sources that cuts through the myth and lies thrown up by America's leading misinformers. (more)
Lehman Execs May Escape Charges
Mar 13, 2011 Officials at the SEC have begun to doubt that the agency can prove that executives of the now-defunct Lehman Brothers investment bank broke the law after the company allegedly moved billions of dollars off its balance sheet.
Wall Street CEOs Off the Hook
Feb 28, 2011 Most of those Wall Street executives whose firms took ridiculous risks and brought the global financial system to its knees are far from a jail cell, or even from being prosecuted by the Justice Department.
Cash Bonuses Down, Compensation Up on Wall Street
Feb 24, 2011 Big banking execs on Wall Street might have noticed a slight pinch in their cash bonuses last year, but that doesn't mean those clever business minds didn't find a way to make up for it through other financial channels.
Goldman Sachs to Gently Tweak Business Practices
Jan 11, 2011 Despite drawing the wrong kind of attention to themselves over the last two-plus years with news of murky dealings in "structured products" and concern over the bank's role in the subprime mortgage crisis, execs at Goldman Sachs apparently .
Banking Regulation Team Pitches New Payment Rules
Dec 28, 2010 An international panel of banking regulators from 27 nations is aiming to crack down on outlandish pay packages for industry executives by proposing a new set of rules that call for more transparency and, wonder of wonders, some correlation between .
Obama Makes Nice with Business Bigwigs
Dec 16, 2010 Bill Clinton and now big business -- all in a week's work for President Obama in his ambitious push to improve relations with parties with whom he'd at least appeared to be at odds since he took office.
Poles Head to the Polls
Jun 20, 2010 Poland's presidential election is finally under way following the death of the country's last president, Lech Kaczynski, in a plane crash two months ago. Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski was the favorite going in, expected to defeat the late president's twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.Goldman Sachs Bigwigs Dispute Charges
Apr 28, 2010 Step right up and you'll see spectacles that will amaze from Tuesday's face-off between senators and Goldman Sachs boss men, such as the awesome Fabrice Tourre denying "categorically" that he misled clients by selling them mysterious bundled financial entities tied to doomed mortgages.
