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 ...

The government, you will be heartened to learn, has something else on its mind aside from prominently displaying its mean streak toward the disabled and single mothers. The cabinet has been sick with worry about your welfare in this recession. For this reason, the nationalised bank Northern Rock, ha...

A book entitled Damn It Feels Good to be a Banker must have seemed a good idea six months ago says Robert Colvile....

By the Comics Curmudgeon The economy is the crapper! Tim Geithner cannot and will not save us! The stimulus is not stimulating enough, or is too stimulating, or something! Judd Gregg and Barack Obama are getting a divorce! It is absolutely true that everything in the world is worse than it ever has ...

In this country, we do things differently. We have "show trials" without the requisite executions. We have a bailout with little real stimulus (notwithstanding Tory hysterics). We have the slow nationalization of the banks, even as the manic drive toward privatization and cuts in public services con...

newVideoPlayer("/Bankers2.flv", 506, 423,""); Congress lived the dream today, just straight-up yelling at some bankers. Watch and enjoy the shaming and grandstanding! How did the bankers get to Washington? Did they carpool? Who knows, but they got there, to say they're soooo sorry about how they was...

Personal View: The chasm between pay and achievement has never been starker argues Mary Riddell....

Morgan Stanley and Citigroup got $60 billion in bailout cash, and they need to cut $1.1 billion from their budgets for their merger, so, naturally, they're paying $3 billion in bonuses for performance. Sorry, "awards." The HuffPo obtained audio of a conference call with Morgan Stanley's James Gorgma...

More like this, please: Hundreds of people trying to save their homes from foreclosure flocked to Connecticut's wealthy Gold Coast this weekend to give financial kingpins a piece of their mind. Homeowners are fed up – and many are frustrated that those who lead the companies that gave them their s...

From the NYT : Abandoning any pretense about limiting the moral hazards at companies that made foolhardy investments, the plan also will not require shareholders of companies receiving significant assistance to lose most or all of their investment… Nor is the government announcing any plans to...