"Let Them Eat Cake" - Washington & Wall Street Loot the Banks

"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst...

Lehman's Fuld: Where Was Our Bailout?

WAS BAILOUT WAS THE RIGHT OF LEHMAN BROTHER?" Richard Fuld, the disgraced head of Lehman Brothers, said he would wonder "until they put me in the ground'' why the U.S. government did not rescue the 158-year-old Wall Street firm and claimed regulators knew the full scale of...

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

"By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: September 17, 2008 Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential.You...

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