Financial Markets

NYAG Eric Schniederman Announces First Fraud Task Force Target: J.P. Morgan Chase

Last January, President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that a joint effort between state and federal authorities would aim to bring Wall Street's ass to court for civil fraud violations. Although the frustrated liberal base wanted jail time for the 2008 financial crisis, this lega ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y., Special Edition: Bob Diamond

In a special edition of 'Mitt Loves N.Y.,'  we are taking our coverage overseas to report on an event that almost happened. It was a story that, thankfully for Mitt, went ignored for the most part by the lamestream media.With a tip-off from the Voice's Steven Thrasher, we stumbled across a litt ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y.: John A. Griffin

Since the Citizens United decision, realpolitik has accepted the harsh reality in which a corporation has the same pedestal in our democratic elections as an ordinary Joe Schmoe. And, as a financial hub in America and abroad, New York has transformed into a politically charged Gotham; its corporate ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Affiliates Chain Subway Gates Open For Fare Strike

A group calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" claimed credit yesterday for opening up more than 20 subway stations throughout the city for free entry. Chaining open emergency gates at stations on the F, L, R, Q, 3, and 6 lines during rush hour yesterday morning, the anonymous activists post ... More >>

Wall Street Frat Bros' Party Is Like Vegas With OWS Jokes

Last night, DealBook posted the story of what happens when a bunch of high powered financial types get together to party. Thursday marked the "annual black tie dinner and induction ceremony" for Kappa Beta Phi (yes, like Phi Beta Kappa, only not), an invite-only, group for master of the universe-ty ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Being Insta-Historicized Into a Book

​Occupy Wall Street, largely organized and advertised on the Internet, has spawned a surprising amount of old-fashioned print media, including the Occupied Wall Street Journal and n 1's Occupy! gazette. Now the next step is here: an Occupy Wall Street book. The book is being put out by OR Bo ... More >>

Euro Crisis Meeting; Earthquake in Turkey; Gaddafi's Autopsy

​EU leaders are in Brussels today for a crisis meeting on how to resolve the Euro's financial woes. Germany is resisting calls to increase the bailout fund and cut Greece's debt. Bloomberg reports "measures on the table include writedowns of as much as 50 percent on Greek debt, 100 billion eur ... More >>

What Does Occupy Wall Street Mean For Art?

Occupy the Hood Aims to Bring More Minorities Into the Occupy Wall Street Fold

Occupy Wall Street wants to represent the "99 percent." But if you've been down to observe the goings-on at Zuccotti Park, you'll have noticed that the majority of participants are white, which -- at the risk of sounding obvious! -- does not represent 99 percent of the U.S. population. Now, labor un ... More >>

Bus Drivers Should Not Have to Transport Arrested Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Says TWU

In the aftermath of more than 700 reported arrests of protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, Occupy Wall Street continues to occupy a large portion of the news. This video has been circulating of what seems to be a very young girl (we've heard 13 years old, though that's not confirmed) being ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue

New Yorkers need "to help the banks" was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show. "The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line, ... More >>

Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Observing the Launch of Occupy Wall Street

Ari Lipsitz​The Occupy Wall Street protest, now in its dwindling stage, started off as something of a shitshow. Around noon on Saturday, Runnin' Scared watched as protesters met at Bowling Green to march around the bronze Wall Street bull and begin their demonstrations. At first, the results w ... More >>

Man Allegedly Makes Bomb Threat Because of Hurricane Irene; DSK Back in Paris; Groupon IPO in Trouble?

​Rajiv Pandey, a 33-year-old Long Island man, is accused of making a bomb threat Friday to the Long Island Power Authority because he was upset at losing his power during Hurricane Irene. The Daily News reports Pandey "called the newsroom at News 12 Long Island, warning he would place a bomb i ... More >>

Why Restaurants Fail

MBJ (Marje) / FlickrEven the Originals Have to Shutter Sooner or Later​New York City is a notoriously difficult place for restaurateurs. They have to deal with expensive rents and a crowded market, among other hardships. Business Insider even notes that among the 1,000 restaurants that opened ... More >>

Robert Gibbs Could Go From Obama to Zuckerberg, Work at Facebook Ahead of IPO

​Former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, a longtime adviser to Barack Obama, is "in talks" to work in a senior communications role at Facebook, Andrew Ross Sorkin reports at the New York Times' DealBook blog. Gibbs' role would lend the company some press savvy legitimacy ahead of the company's ma ... More >>

Food Business Incubator Coming to Brooklyn; Cupcake Craze Goes Savory

​Maine lawmakers are trying to decide whether to make the whoopie pie the state's official dessert. The sole opposition is a Democrat worried about glorifying a product made with lard. [AOL News] A food-focused "business incubator" is planned for one of Brooklyn's lower-income neighborhoods, ... More >>

Eat the Rich

The rich are richer than ever, but don't ask them for help

Microcrisis Watches the Bubble Pop

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SEC and CFTC Report May's Stock Market Crash Due to Single Sale by Mutual Fund

​Back in the spring of 2010 -- yeah, all those months ago, May 6 to be exact -- the Dow was rocked by a precipitous crash of nearly 1,000 points for a good solid few minutes. Chaos on Wall Street ensued! And then the Dow went back up, pretty much...and we were left with our memories and the my ... More >>

The Forthcoming Bailout of Greece: Now Would Be a Good Time to Take That Last-Minute Trip to Europe

​Oh, Europe. All that time of your currency condescending the dollar has come to fruition, as you ponder whether or not to bail Greece out of their current debt with a 110B Euro package.

Suit: Raunchy Wall Street CEO Offers to Make Young Employee 'Cumm,' Sends Her His Jerk-Off Video, Fires Her

Thomas GuerrieroA sex-crazed CEO of a Wall Street investment firm turned an aspiring stockbroker's dream job into a "raunchy, intimidating, and sexualized" workplace that literally made her sick, according to a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court this morning. "I wanna make u cumm like u never had ... More >>

Tenants in 'Worst Landlords' Bronx Buildings Take Wall Street — Not Their Landlord — to Court

On the heels of the Voice's "10 Worst Landlords" series, tenants in 10 foreclosed buildings in the Bronx run into the ground by dishonoree Milbank Real Estate are going to court with a new strategy that directly targets Wall Street. Backed up by local pols, they're asking a judge today to force mor ... More >>

Vanity Fair Reveals Mystery Owner of Sick Wall Street 2 Apartment

​Yesterday, the New York Times set up a nice little mystery. Who could possibly own the freakin' awesome Chelsea penthouse that functions as the cinematic landing pad of Shia LaBeouf (who plays Gordon Gekko's new protege/victim) in the sequel to Wall Street? It's really, really nice by the way ... More >>

How to Fix Wall Street: You Don't, Because You Can't, So You Might As Well Just Invest in Cocaine Derivatives

​Not that you thought you could, but basically, you can't, and there's no point in trying. Sorry. Why?

Finally! Cupcakes for Dudes: Butch Bakery Debuts, Injects Testosterone into Cupcake Craze

Cupcakes for dudes: where butch meets butter cream.​Ever wonder what's been missing from cupcakemania? As it turns out, it's cupcakes for men. Since the very beginning of the trend, sparked by the gals from Sex and the City, bakeries like Magnolia, BabyCakes, and Baked by Melissa have predomin ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

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