finance
Nice Republicans Temporarily Halt Assault on Democracy
Jeff Neumann · 04/29/10 04:30AMJon Stewart Mocks the Senate for Its Goldman Sachs Grandstanding
Matt Cherette · 04/27/10 10:26PMBorderline-Useless Senate Democrat Suddenly Interested in Regulating Wall Street
Pareene · 04/16/10 03:24PMGoldman Sachs Stock Takes a Massive Nosedive
Ravi Somaiya · 04/16/10 11:15AMSEC Sues Goldman Sachs
Ravi Somaiya · 04/16/10 10:22AMNew Jersey Guv Hides Tax Info
Pareene · 04/16/10 09:52AMTaking Money from Bono Is a Bad Omen for Your Business
Ryan Tate · 03/25/10 01:53PMSEC Employees Were Masturbating to Kiddie Porn While Your Economy Tanked
John Cook · 03/23/10 11:11AMGoogle Geniuses Now Trading Bonds
Ryan Tate · 03/22/10 05:24PMJim Cramer is Still Very Bad with Numbers
Jeff Neumann · 03/18/10 04:18AMThere's a Downside to Being the CEO of Goldman Sachs
Remy Stern · 03/16/10 04:15PMChris Dodd Compares the Senate Finance Bill to a Colonoscopy
Henry Baker · 03/16/10 11:26AMSuze Orman: "I Am a Total Lady Gaga Freak"
Matt Cherette · 03/13/10 10:45PMJon Stewart Sums Up Everything That is Wrong with America in Under Four Minutes
Matt Cherette · 02/24/10 02:49AMGoldman Sachs Doesn't Do Snow
cityfile · 02/10/10 02:58PMWant to express your displeasure with the way Goldman Sachs steamrolled Washington and profited at the expense of American taxpayers during the financial meltdown? Head to the Embassy Suites in the financial district tonight: "Goldman employees have all the rooms [booked] because they don't want to commute home in the weather and come back early." [BI]
Blankfein Plays It Safe
cityfile · 02/05/10 02:25PMJamie Dimon Will Have to Make Do
cityfile · 02/05/10 09:20AM"JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, who led the second-biggest U.S. bank to a profit each quarter of the financial crisis, got a bonus package valued at $17 million for 2009 that didn't include any cash. The 53-year-old banker, who got a $27.8 million bonus for 2007 and only a $1 million salary for 2008, received restricted stock units and options and no cash bonus for last year, spokesman Joseph Evangelisti said. The valuation of his 2009 bonus was based on a JPMorgan regulatory filing today. "It's consistent with past pay practices and returns," said Alan Johnson, founder of New York-based Johnson Associates Inc. "You could argue that for him, personally, pay could have been higher, but this isn't the year for them to have done that." There's always next year! [BN]
Miranda Kerr to the Rescue
cityfile · 02/04/10 12:08PMRemember the banker that got busted for looking at racy photos on his computer because one of his colleagues was being interviewed on TV at the time? The woman he was looking at pictures of—Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr—has now stepped in and offered to sign a petition to help him try and save his job. [Herald Sun/NYP, previously]
Citigroup 2.0
cityfile · 02/03/10 01:14PMCitigroup chief Vikram Pandit is blogging! Well, not exactly. But he does make an appearance on "The New Citi Blog," a site the bank launched earlier this week to try and convince the public—and Washington—that Citi has totally changed since the financial crisis unfolded and is now totally focused on making the world a better place: