Today at a conference at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon bemoaned the recent "vilification of corporate America." "I personally don’t understand it,” Dimon said in his speech. “I would ask a lot of our folks in government to stop doing it because ...

Even 'SNL' bashed Geithner this weekend. Poor Tim Geithner. The Former New York Fed president's stint as Treasury secretary has, to put it mildly, not been going very well. In retrospect, it seems like it was cursed from the beginning, when his nomination was briefly put on hold after it was reveale...

Yesterday New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a.k.a. the Bonus Buster, got former Merrill Lynch president Gregory Fleming into his torture chamber. He had been waiting a long time for this. The hot wax and the marbles and the feathers were ready. But he didn't get a chance to use them. Fleming i...

Eliot Spitzer, working through his father's real-estate company, has bought a thirteen-story office building in downtown D.C. The building happens to be a mere block away from the Mayflower Hotel, where naught thirteen months ago Spitzer stripped down to his black socks and had tryst with a call gir...

No one wanted to buy Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming's watercolor portrait of Bernie Madoff at yesterday's Armory Show, which was on sale for $100,000. To add insult to Pei-Ming's injury, Bloomberg News today deemed it "creepy." And then they went one step further: The 7-foot-wide black-and-white waterc...

For many celebrities, there comes a time when they want to do something new. Something that requires the use of their minds, not just their beautiful, beautiful bodies. Some endeavor to learn about architecture, or try their hand at the ancient art of making perfume. Others want to Direct. But there...

Awesome. Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne is 73 years old, and apparently, like many other people his age, such as your racist aunt Gracie, he has decided he no longer gives a proverbial rat's ass about what comes out of his mouth. Daily Intel loves nothing more than uncovering the products of th...

Well hello. We missed it, but Ben Bernanke got all hot under the collar when talking about the rescue of AIG at today's Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington. "If there is a single episode in this entire 18 months that has made me more angry, I can't think of one other than AIG," he said, ad...

Rush Limbaugh on Jake "I get a lot of heat from the left, which is bizarre" Tapper: "Jake Tapper is the one guy outside the butt boy bubble in the White House press room." [Media Matters via Gawker] Related: Jake Tapper Is a Tool Read more posts by Jessica Pressler Filed Under: Tool Academy...

So it seems there was a vast right-wing conspiracy surrounding Rick Santell's February 19 rant in response to President Obama's housing policy but, Santelli says, he was not a part of it. Last night, several days after a weirdly sourced, speculative blog post on Playboy's website — which linke...