John Thain

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

Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

Cuomo Subpoenas Merrill Lynch Bonus Bandits

The financial crisis has nearly exhausted our sense of outrage. When we first heard about the ridiculous bonuses Merrill Lynch paid out just before it collapsed into the arms of Bank of America -- which, as BoA is TARP-funded, amounted to a bailout -- we were shocked and angry, but now we just go ... More >>

Bush and Confessions of a Shopaholic Agree: Go Shopping! (Wait, Don't.)

The financial crisis has nearly exhausted our sense of outrage. When we first heard about the ridiculous bonuses Merrill Lynch paid out just before it collapsed into the arms of Bank of America -- which, as BoA is TARP-funded, amounted to a bailout -- we were shocked and angry, but now we just go ... More >>

Cuomo May Seek Giveback of $4B Merrill Lynch Bonuses

The saga of the $4 billion in bonuses paid to collapsed Merrill Lynch just got funnier for everyone except the people who received the money. Having subpoenaed ousted Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (and the head of Bank of America, which took the firm over) about the bonuses, AG Andrew Cuomo is said t ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

U.S. to GM CEO: Take a hike

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

Steamroller Cuomo Squeezes Int'l Banks for Big Bucks

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>