So, this morning I was blog-surfing and came across Jim Hightower's takedown of the poor widdle mistreated banksters, which links to this NYT piece on how tough these Wall Street moguls have it now that they're facing life limited to 125% of the annual income of the President of the United States, a...

Following up on Rick Santelli's concern that any effort to aide aid families facing foreclosure will wind up "rewarding bad behavior," here are some recent pics from the Associated Press. This is Mary Ann Herrera, photographed in front of her San Antonio home Monday by AP photographer Eric Gay. She ...

newVideoPlayer("/maher_bankers_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Don't get us wrong: We despise the arrogant and overpaid financiers responsible for this economic mess. They, not taxpayers, should pay for their incompetence. But banker hatred is starting to get worrisomely extreme. Some examples: Bill Mahe...

The Nation Obtuse hardly does justice to the social stupidity of our late, unlamented financial overlords. John Thain of Merrill Lynch and Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers, along with an astonishing number of their fraternity brothers, continue to behave like so many intoxicated toreadors waving thei...

The situation as it stands: Wall Street had been holding its breath, pricing in, and "banking" (betting) on an effective Stimulus Plan, and a new and sensible Bank Rescue Plan. Well, neither are happening, and now we've continued with our regulary-scheduled collapse. Geithner is a total fucking schm...

Q: Where did some of these incompetent and corrupt bankers spend their time and the banks' money last year? an investment banker from Lehman Brothers who saw "Kelsey and Keely together" and later saw "Aria and Skyler at the same time" an investment banker at JP Morgan Securities who "l...

Of course it's the Daschle one that's got the media giggling away as they hurl Kryptonite at the White House. (What, you thought they wouldn't, with Bush out? Get real.) But Geithner and Nancy K. were problems too -- and Bill Richardson. Now, being me and not a Beltway insider type, I'm thinking wha...

"I am not a crook!" Senator Chris Dodd released the details of his Countrywide mortgages. In a statement released with it he said that he would refinance the loans. But, please, pay no attention to this fact: "Jackie and Chris have "decided to refinance (their) homes", which seems unremarkable, give...

A friend of mine likes to joke that "all Republicans are socialists," meaning that when it comes to the government handing out free money to bankers, large off-shore HQ'd corporations, or Red Staters sucking the Federal tit, they just can't say "No." We've spent a lot of time mocking them for the hy...

"We spent a decade feasting on easy money..." What you mean "we," Frank? Last I checked, real wages have been flat for thirty years, with lots of help from pundits like you, Frank. And as far as a "feast" goes, what I remember is the famine after the dot com bubble burst in 2000. Although the massiv...