Jon Stewart is on a tear these days, taking on the wild world of financial punditry one shouty bald guy at a time. This episode is dedicated to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who, try as he may to deny it, just seemed to have a thing for Bear Stearns stock—mere days before the whole company tanked. ...

Another lost day for The Garlic ... We'll leave with, probably, the best post of the day. Perhaps, you're one of the less-than-handful that hasn't seen, heard, of been told about the Jon Stewart riff on CNBC (and his follow-up comments on Letterman ) . Will Bunch of Attytood was just as impressed, b...

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCNBC Gives Financial AdviceDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri MartinPolitical HumorJoke of the Day Jon Stewart skewers CNBC, Rick Santelli, Cramer et. al on his "Daily Show" last night.... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – S...

1. Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clinton's to lose, but it took a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the Iowa caucuses. After Iowa, Kristol......

We love the Elf Yourself / Jib Jab elves. Here we present Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld, Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne, Former Merrill CEO Stan O'Neal, and Former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince.... Send your own ElfYourself eCards...

Image via Wikipedia By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here. There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and t...

Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Financial Crisis This post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature. In a year of financial chaos, how can on...

I can't believe so many people objected to this bailout plan.  They wrote their congressperson and complained that they weren't getting their mortgage reduced but that banks were getting free money and that that wasn't fair since the banks are the ones that caused the problem. Are they joking?&...

Wouldn't a conversation like this be kind of memorable?: Say that the CEO of a large investment banking firm was hearing rumors that traders at an even larger competitor's firm were spreading malicious rumors about its stock, and then called......

What are we taxpayers getting for our money as we bail out the geniuses who have run some of our leading financial institutions into the ground? The Treasury is extending a reported $300 billion line of credit to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but what do we receive in return?...