Just days after announcing a $250 million investment from A&E Networks, Vice Media today announced another $250 million investment, this one from the venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures. That's half a billion dollars they can use to pay their employees a living wage, theoretically.

In Zurich, prostitutes and strip clubs are seeing declines in business, now that "Bankers really have to show who the client was, why they spent the money and was it really necessary." Once again, banking regulations hurt the little guy.

Right now, the issue of corporate tax inversions—where a US company reincorporates abroad to dodge US taxes—is one of the most controversial tax policy questions in Washington. Some Congressmen are very bia$ed on the issue!

Mike Bloomberg, the 16th richest human in the world, is no longer the mayor of NYC. He is merely a private citizen who made $6 billion last year. He says he wants to give his fortune away before he dies. Is that enough to make him good?

Wall Street made itself more welcoming this week, as several top banks announced plans to raise the salaries of their lowest-level minions by about 20%. Will this be enough to make banking attractive to Ivy League pricks once again?

If you're a typical gentrifier in an "up and coming" Brooklyn neighborhood, you've probably said to yourself, "I wish I could invest in property here while it's still cheap." Now you can, thanks to another god damn Wall Street goon with a great investment idea.

Let us now update our list of civic ripoffs.

In addition to all of the fun "food stamps" and free nights in jail, here is another thing to look forward to as a reward for being poor: having your limbs amputated.

A new government report on the persistence of the implied "Too Big to Fail" guarantee for major banks finds that the advantage for those banks has declined since the recession, but TBTF still exists, which is why we should still break up the biggest banks, so they can fail in peace.

College these days is expensive as hell. ($57K for "Pitzer?" Is that even accredited?) Everyone is drowning in student debt. But! There is good news on the college cost front. Also, there is bad news.

If you've taken a commercial airline flight recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that airlines are broke as hell, forced to penny-pinch and slash service to the bone. Not so! Several airlines reported record profits this week. But how?

It is easy to feel as though average citizens have no real power over the monetary scams, schemes, and predations of rich and powerful people and corporations. Not true. All of us hold a power that amount of money can buy: the power of our approval.

The most popular argument against high taxes on the rich by localities is that these rich people will simply flee for other, lower-tax locations. According to a new study here in NYC, this is false.

A new study finds that a mere 0.07% of mutual funds were able to stay in the top 25% of funds for the past five years in a row. This is the zillionth piece of evidence pointing to the fact that you, the average jerk, should just buy cheap index funds and leave them alone.

American colleges and universities face a climate of soaring costs, soaring student debt, and general wariness over the long term financial viability of our higher education model. The chief financial officers of colleges say, collectively: oh, shit.

Economic indicators and financial markets go up, and they go down. Sometimes they get really big, and then they collapse. What is the latest bubble? Perhaps.. the fear of bubbles itself.

Stock market pros say the "dumb money" is flooding into the stock market now, even as professional investors say the big gains are mostly over. Yeah... you'll show them who's dumb. Buy high, sell higher!

Happy bank earnings day! You'll be happy to learn that both Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have already reported higher than expected second quarter profits. Seems like a good time to let you know that the top 1% is even wealthier than we thought.

A former Goldman Sachs banker who wrote a high-minded book about the firm's ethical decline is now in the business of offering usurious loans to desperate small businesses. What an interesting career path.

Cool Pope Francis is going to replace the entire leadership of the Vatican Bank because they're scandal-plagued and also their profits fell 97% last year. Wow, bet god is really proud of that shitty bank... get your shit together, Cool Pope.