Bob McCarty Writes

From the “I DON’T LISTEN TO HOLLYWOOD!” department: Believe it or not, ABC television is prepping to air pilots for two new television comedies based upon “recent Wall Street carnage and the sad toll it’s taken on that once-mighty warrior, the investment banker.”
The sad toll it’s taken on that once-mighty warrior, the investment banker?  That’s [...]

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The headlines of a pair of Wall Street Journal articles should have never appeared next to each other, but they did today.
While reading the WSJ Opinion Journal online this afternoon, the writer-editor in me noticed the pair of headlines shown in the graphic at right.  Appearing below the subhead, “Taste,” the first headline, The Holocaust [...]

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It’s understandable if some Americans find themselves confused as they try to understand the financial headlines making news this morning:

An enormous “Ponzi” scheme, allegedly perpetrated by a long-trusted Wall Street legend and former chairman of the NASDAQ, continues to make headlines since becoming public four days ago.

Other news articles focus on the possibility of news [...]

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Barry Ritholtz, author of the soon-to-be-published book, “Bailout Nation,” might have summed up the nation’s financial crisis and subsequent government bailout efforts best when he wrote, “Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain.”

In a post published yesterday on his blog, The Big Picture, Ritholtz reveals research findings that show the government’s $7.75 trillion in bailout [...]

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Covering topics that range from financial and political news to reality television and college football, stories worth reading this Monday morning appear below:

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that radio station ad sales are way down, but they pale in comparison to what’s likely to happen if the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” is reinstated.  It [...]

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