If you ever idly considered going to Buenos Aires to enjoy its humid subtropical climate, tango music, and world famous zoo, just forget it. The entire city is now populated by laid-off American bankers. Apparently a visit to the Teatro Colon or a sightseeing stroll over to Pablo Neruda's old house ...

Bailout Kings Goldman Sachs is a major shareholder in Burger King? Who knew? Brave New Films and the SEIU did, and they're not pleased with the fact that Goldman Sachs has been converting billions in TARP bailout funds into executive bonuses (read: stealing the money) while the workers at one of the...

cleantech, energy, policy Jesse Berst wrote: Here are seven key questions and answers about the electricity economy and smart-grid technology. 1. What is “electronomics” and where does it fit in today’s energy world? One of the best ways to understand the new electric smart grid of...

There are already signs that the next 12 months will not be so bleak says Jim O'Neill....

The "best little whorehouse on Wall Street": Busted Manhattan madam Kristin Davis who's said to be writing a tell all book, is starting to open up. She's let the folks at 20/20 have a peek at a computerized high profile......

Third of three parts The contracts were flying out of AIG Financial Products. Hardly anyone outside Wall Street had ever heard of credit-default swaps, but by early 2005, investment banks were snapping them up to insure all kinds of deals in case of default, fueling one of the great financial boo......

An increasingly upset Mr. Cheney stated categorically that Mr. Wallace, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, and even Paris Hilton could all go “bleep” themselves. Although such enthusiastic support for onanistic love comes during the twilight of his publi...

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...

Biotech, Cash, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: Boston is the biggest center of life sciences in the Xconomy network, and by our analysis, the Bay State’s biotech sector is also the best equipped to survive the economic crisis. I reached this conclusion by combing through public company fil...

This could be a problem since many institutional investors and pension funds are barred from owning stocks below $5 dollars, and that could produce a massive sell-off of the stock that would further reduce the price. “That’s the danger of crossing that $5 threshold,” says Owen Malc...