Morgan Stanley

Country Club Sopranos

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

Charges Dropped Against Morgan Stanley Fat-Cat Accused Of Stabbing Cabby In Racist Drunken Rage

"It's been a difficult ordeal for my family."That's what a Morgan Stanley big-wig told reporters outside of a Connecticut courtroom this afternoon after charges that he stabbed a Middle-Eastern cab driver in a drunken rage were dropped.But the charges weren't dropped because there was overwhelming e ... More >>

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

In the battle over gay rights, dissent during wartime isn't always tolerated

Morgan Stanley's PR Department Suffers Particularly Bad Week -- Compliments Of Hookers And Racism

​So, Morgan Stanley really took it on the chin in the PR department this week...The public relations beat-down is the result of two of the financial giant's employees' suspected involvement in two fairly serious, but unrelated, crimes -- in one case, one of the company's bigwigs pleaded not guilty ... More >>

Cops: Morgan Stanley Banker Stabbed Cabbie, Used Racial Slurs

A top honcho at Morgan Stanley, William Bryan Jennings, has been charged with stabbing a Middle Eastern cabbie with a pen knife and using racial intimidation, cops say. The banking behemoth says that the Americas co-head of fixed income and capital markets has since been put on leave, according to ... More >>

CIA Connection in Libya?; Tropical Storm Lee to Hit Gulf Coast; Government Sues Banks

​Documents tying the CIA to the Qaddafi-led Libyan government were found in an abandoned office in Tripoli, the New York Times reports. The findings, which have not been verified for authenticity, allude to the practice of the American intelligence agency handing over terror suspects to the Li ... More >>

Rightbloggers: S&P Downgrade of U.S. Means We're On The Right Track

Last week, hot on the heels of the Congressional debt-ceiling fiasco and the ensuing stock market drop, Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit rating of the United States of America from AAA to AA , and placed the ailing superpower on "CreditWatch with negative implications." The reactions of Ame ... More >>

Will the New York Times Paywall Be a 'Wasteland' For Writers? It's Coming Soon!

​The New York Times had a big, important meeting today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, in which the people in charge talked about how the business side is going. For most everyone that reads the paper, the discussion is boring beyond belief. ("The improvement in p ... More >>

Banks Say Bye-Bye to Holiday Parties Again

​Some Wall Street bankers might need to forsake the glitzy office party for take-out and a movie this year -- TheStreet.com says many of the city's finance firms -- including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and UBS -- are either canceling or keeping "mum" about their par ... More >>

Morgan Stanley Fires Employee Who Attempted to Make the Subway "Friendly"

​There are certain rules that we all implicitly agree to live by in New York City. Such as: don't interact on the subway or in the streets when you can do it on Craigslist; don't make eye contact unless at least two alcoholic beverages in; don't try to be friends unless in a pre-approved frien ... More >>

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 >>

Wall Street Runs for Congress

Lots of hedging from Carolyn Maloney's foe, hedge fund lawyer challenger Reshma Saujani

FEELING GREEN

Elton John and Lady Gaga band together for a good cause

Hopping Around Wall Street's Holiday Parties—Or Lack Thereof

Weekend student vaccination centers open

​As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary school students above four years of age are also eligible for the free shots. Fifty private compani ... More >>

Snooty Weekly, Staten Island Daily Endorse Bloomberg

​The New York Observer and the Staten Island Advance today endorse Mayor Bloomberg's third term (the Advance "strongly," the Observer in a tasteful shade of salmon). The proletarian Advance shakes its head that some people, upset by Bloomberg's overthrow of term limits, are planning to vote a ... More >>

Stress Tests: Banks Need to Raise $75 Billion to Stay Afloat

The results of Obama's stress test on the banks, for which 150 government agencies examined TARP-funded U.S. financial institutions to determine their states of health, are in. The bad news first: 10 of the 19 banks examined will need to raise $75 billion in additional capital to be deemed sufficien ... More >>

The mark of cane: Governor Paterson keeps getting blindsided by personal shots

From the New Yorker's "Your Eustace, 2009," the mag's annual contest for the best new version of Rea Irvin's classic cover, this entry (one of 12 winners — and my favorite) is "Eustace, the Undead New Yorker," by David Cook of Suwanee, Georgia. Further proof of the schizophrenic media cult ... 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 >>

David Paterson and Kirsten Gillibrand: New Senator, New Scandal

The Governor's pick is genuine machine-made royalty

America is Back!

Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

Daily Flog: Frantic banks make a run on us; automakers drive up to Treasury's ATM

Daily Flog: Future heads toward a sharp loss; robot monkeys mesmerized by TV

Daily Flog: White House on its knees, the rest of us on our backs, Wall Street zipping up

Krauts Sour on Wall Street Bailout

Daily Flog: Hedgehog Day on Wall Street; no one's selling greed short

Daily Flog: The Dow of panic; stocks and bondage; U.S. snatches gold

Lehman Fallout: Street Vendor, Morgan Stanley VP Suffer (Updated)

Lehman Wasn't Too Poor to Buy Obama, McCain

TABLOIDED

"Frosty the Goldman" and Other Odes to Subprime Profiteers

Adventures in Google's Contextual Advertising

The Hudson Railyard Bids Are In

Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining

Rich Man, Poor Man

Rags-to-riches flick declares: Money does indeed buy happi(y)ness

Sign 'O' the Times

A respite from Times Square holiday madness resides at the Rum House piano bar

Hair Traffic

Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

Courage to Be Rich

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

Stock Shock

The Market Is Taking Investors on a Wild Ride. Windowsill, Anyone?

Backlash and Counter-Backlash

Arabs and Muslims Fend Off a Tragedy’s Aftermath

The Talking Cure

Adventures in Accent Reduction

System Failure

The Comptroller Says HS Systems Overcharged for Screening Disabled Welfare Recipients. So Why Did the Company Win a Fat New Contract?

The Empire Strikes Back

Alternative-Energy Scientist Fights to Save Patent

Will the Citi Ever Weep?

Dam Shame

Activists Target Global Financiers of Chinese Eco Disaster

Quantum Leap

Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

That Girl

New York Senator Hillary Clinton?