Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task

“I had grossly underestimated the level of extraordinarily unethical and even fraudulent behavior that had occurred on such a large scale,” Ferguson tells All Things Considered host Melissa Block, in a conversation airing Friday. via Inside Job Director Charles Ferguson, Taking Wall Street Firmly To Task : Monkey See : NPR.

Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA

The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he usedContinue reading “Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA”

With just 400 exceptions, Americans are Poor, and Getting Poorer

For anyone who’s been complaining about the ever-worsening state of our Federal government’s finances over the past ten years, consider the concept of the zero-sum game: this should be familiar to all the free market (Chicago School) fans who can quote Gordon Gecko soliloquies like baseball stats; someone wins, someone loses. So, smart guys (I’mContinue reading “With just 400 exceptions, Americans are Poor, and Getting Poorer”

Dude, Where’s My 401(k)?

If you’re wondering where your retirement money went, we’ve found a few clues. Indeed, last year’s wealth wasteland has become a billionaire bonanza. Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year. And so, it appears, that this latest stampede/transfer of wealth is almost complete. via worlds-billionaires-2010:Continue reading “Dude, Where’s My 401(k)?”