Financial Markets

Uwe Boll, Legendarily Bad Director, Fantasizes About Murdering Finance Bros in Assault on Wall Street

Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, Can't Get His Movie About Killing Wall Streeters to Open in New York

The perennial worst director is gunning for the bastards -- and respect

A Bodega Buffet Is Shut Down Because of the Smell

Lower East Side coffee shop d'Espresso closed on Stanton Street, Bowery Boogie reported. The Italian-style cafe opened in 2008 and expanded to midtown in 2010 (the midtown location will remain open). 100 Stanton Street Midtown Lunch discovered a "hidden gem"--an unnamed Indian buffet operating out ... More >>

Country Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Sean Fieler

With Mitt Romney as its de facto candidate, the roster of Restore Our Future, Romney's designated Super PAC slush fund, reads like a laundry list of New York City's wealthiest denizens. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and contrary to popular belief, Super PAC ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Bruce Kovner

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 Is Finally Occupying Wall Street (Or At Least Trying)

Seven months after they first set up camp in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters are actually occupying Wall Street. But after a relatively uneventful week of lawfully sleeping on the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, the protesters have been met with a strong police response over ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Vows to Shut Down Subways; NYPD Issues Plan to Mobilize 432 Headquarters Cops If Necessary

​Occupy Wall Street posted a notice on its website earlier today that it intends to block the subways and Foley Square, and shut down Wall Street, whatever that may mean, this Thursday. Meanwhile, the NYPD appears to be getting ready to counter a possible major push by the protesters with a ne ... More >>

13 Percent of the Richest People in America Live in New York City

​The New York Times has an interesting piece today in their City Room blog that analyzes the wealth distribution of American households from 1913 (when federal income tax was first imposed) to today. In 1913, for example, "the richest 0.1 percent of households reaped 8.6 percent of the nation' ... More >>

If You Want to Cross Wall Street, Get a Corporate I.D.

Rosie GrayBarriers up in the Financial District.​It's been over month since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street, and if you've been down to the Financial District lately you may have noticed that on Wall Street between Broadway and William (also on Broad Street and Exchange Place), there are m ... More >>

We Are the 1 Percent, Say a Few People

In response to the tactics of Occupy Wall Street, which self-professed "Capitalist Pig" Jonathan Hoenig described in SmartMoney earlier this week as a mob using force and intimidation to achieve their collectivist goals -- he bases this on Merriam-Webster's third definition of "occupy": "to take or ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street, Which Is Totally Not Like the Tea Party Because Hippies

Back during the Tea Party heyday, months ago, rightbloggers would applaud the guys and gals in tricorners who gathered in public to protest the "ruling class" that, they said, was destroying America, and agitate for a new Revolution. The Tea Party seems to be fading, and now we have Occupy Wall Str ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this rally, w ... More >>

As "Occupy Wall Street" Continues, I Have Other Protest Ideas

​Bravo to the "Occupy Wall Street" protestors who've been camped out in lower Manhattan, screaming about how Financial District greed destroyed the economy. While we're at it, let's also rail against...

Wall Streeters Like to Spend the Summer Eating Themselves Sick

The new face of competitive eating. It may surprise you.​It seems that professional eaters aren't the only ones with a passing interest in cramming huge quantities of food matter down their throats. Wall Street types, never ones to shy away from the spotlight (or competition), like to spend th ... More >>

Bloomberg Budget Includes Thousands of Teacher Layoffs

​4,278: That's the magic number of teacher layoffs Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed for New York City, plus another 1,500 teaching jobs cut via attrition, in his new budget, announced today. The cuts aim to save $400 million across agencies to address "a multibillion-dollar deficit in his ... More >>

Who Wants to Be the Next Mets Owners?

​This morning's New York Post made it a lot easier to set up your office "Who's going to end up owning the Mets once the Wilpons have to repay their Madoff money?" pool, by running a helpful list of rich guys who, it claims, are in the running to buy at least a share of the Amazin's. Less help ... More >>

Ahmad Jamal & Lee Konitz

Germans to Buy NYSE; Hasselhoff to Chair Federal Reserve?

​Deutsche Boerse, the owner of the German stock exchange, is in talks to purchase the NYSE. Apparently they're taking "buy low" to heart. The Post reports that NYSE Euronet, current owner of the New York Stock Exchange, was going to reveal the news next Tuesday, but rumors forced them to relea ... More >>

Wall Street Bails Out the Bad Guys

Reshma Saujani's Road to Congress? Right Down Wall Street. Let Me Be Your Guide.

Pretend you're Reshma Saujani, 34, dazzling, born to an Indian family expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, a Harvard and Yale Law School grad who returned to Africa to help build Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid government. It's late 2009 and everything you've done in your professional life since its i ... More >>

Vintage Wall Street Sign to Sell for $60,000 to $80,000

​The latest in awesome -- albeit very expensive -- New York signage is an original street sign that was stationed at the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets during the late-19th/early 20th centuries. Christie's is auctioning it off on Tuesday, and expects it to go for between $60,000 and $8 ... More >>

Morning Links: Scary Sinkhole in Guatemala, BP Losing Value Like It's Losing Oil, Real Housewives DWI Bust

​• In the wake of Tropical Storm Agatha, there is a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City, and it is terrifying. "It may look like it's impossible to fix, but we've done it before," says David de Leon, spokesman for the Guatemala disaster response agency. Video of the sinkhole here. • BP has l ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Trashes Chuck Schumer As He Crusades to Protect Wall Street Excess

​Politico reported today that Mayor Mike trashed his longtime buddy Chuck Schumer at an April 12 meeting in Mitch McConnell's Senate office in Washington. The attack on Schumer, who supports the financial reform bill now before the Senate, is part of the oddest Bloomberg campaign ... More >>

Bloomberg Roots for Wall Street

The Mayor remembers the Titans, at any cost

Manhattan Helicopter Transit on the Rise Again, Kinda Maybe Means Economic Bounceback is Here?

​Live in Jersey? Go to Jersey? Never been to Jersey? Either way, you've probably heard of or experienced the pain of the PATH or the NJ Transit or the Holland Tunnel. Which make the MTA trains feel like a chariot and the bridges like magical yellow brick roads.

Morning Billfold: Junk Bond Apocalypse Terror, Lehman's Snitches, Hedge Fund Rockstars

​Lehman Brothers weren't so happy about their whistleblowers. The "rock stars" of hedge funds aren't exactly proverbial Guitar Heroes. A 2.2 billion euro bonus went out to the "risk takers" of Deutsche Bank. CBS' March Madness ad money? Buzzer-beater quality stuff. And the new economic doomsda ... More >>

Milton Balkany, Brooklyn Rabbi, Busted Again

​There are many choice quotes contained in the new federal complaint filed yesterday against Milton Balkany, the politically connected Borough Park rabbi whose Rolodex includes well-thumbed cards for influential figures ranging from Bob Dole to Rudy Giuliani. Here's Balkany, 63, telling repr ... More >>

Obama's New Bank Laws Would Re-Criminalize Wall Street Shenanigans; Panicky Dems Finally Listen to Paul Volcker

Volcker: He told Obama so.Finally, Barack Obama today unveiled a proposed major curb on Wall Street that would revive the "spirit of Glass-Steagall" — the Depression-era law that would have prevented last year's Wall Street meltdown if it hadn't been abolished during the Clinton administration ... More >>

From baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the deadliest beanball war -- Jews vs. Arabs

The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

Fellow Arabs honor journalist's feat

Russia's oil companies plead for bailout; our oilmen, of course, are flush with cash

How Chefs Are Dealing With the Tanking Dollar

Getting creative with imported goods

Graf Life

An impromptu museum pops up as street artists seize a building they once illegally tagged

From Security to Risk in One Easy Bush Plan

President trades American promise for a Wall Street gamble

Vintage for Dummies: The Idiot's Guide to Old Clothes

Screed is Good: NYC Docs Examine Two Kinds of Markets

A Tsunami of Greed

As the poor of Asia count their dead, Wall Street basks in riches

Financing Mass Murder

How free-market investors contribute to genocide in Darfur while they take the profits

The Royal Business

In this slick little Bush family saga, Bandar is the prince, and we're the paupers

Change directions: This weekend turn left at Cooper Union

Courage to Be Rich

In the company of women: New doc on the females of finance steers clear of the F-word

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Once a Car Dealer . . .

Selig Makes Big Haul From Pal's Firm

The Other Ghosts of Ground Zero

Unlike Other New York Landmarks, the Twin Towers Were Built on Landfill(ed) With Drama of the Past

Sex on the Floor

Black Man Charges His White Female Boss Sexually Harassed and Discriminated Against Him at the New York Stock Exchange

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load

Civil War

Impeachment Hawks Eye Death of New Deal

That Girl

New York Senator Hillary Clinton?