It’s always helpful to remember the kind of people we’re dealing with on Wall St.: “We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining [...]

Oh Holy Shit. I don’t check my supersecret not-blogging email address (hawtnakedkjlopez@flaccid.com) for about two weeks and what to my wondering eyes should appear? This… Four, count’em , four different editions each with  special features specifically catering to whichever selfish greedhead gang you roll with. (And 62 Facebook “likes”!) You can choose from (and I’m [...]

Sad and unappreciated: Junior investment bankers to Wall Street: Take this job and shove it. While young bankers said they enjoy their jobs, most are dissatisfied with pay and hope to leave the field, with almost 60 percent saying they want to work in private equity, according to a survey released yesterday by headhunting firm [...]

We all know that Galtian Step-n-Fetchit Congressman Paul Ryan is very serious about America’s precarious financial health which is why he is constantly trying to cut back on needless expenses like medical care for elderly Americans who are perfectly capable of breaking into medical waste containers outside of doctors offices and hospitals where they can [...]

Shorter Katherine Mangu-Ward: Fucking kids don’t know shit about economics and just repeat talking points that they are told to say. Fucking little looters… Here’s Katherine Mangu-Ward explaining economics on teevee Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The look on Michael Hiltzik’s face just after she starts, well, we’ll [...]

Shorter William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School: Rick Perry’s shitty grades don’t mean jackshit. Take it from me: academic achievement is total bullshit, but that doesn’t mean I won’t keep cashing the checks. $53,150.00 per year for Cornell law school. LOL! Suckers.

I was sad  because I had no job until I met a dilettante who was forced to sit on a couch and  stare at a laptop while typing continually wrong stuff about everything for A WHOLE WEEKEND. This is worse than working in the Himalayan pink salt mines. Much much worse… (Added) In comments, MBouffant [...]

Like the bold manly Randian cartoon characters he so admires, Atlas Shrugged movie producer John Aglialoro refuses to take “no” or “your movie sucks goat dick” for an answer, so he is going to keep making Atlas Shrugged movies until the end of time: “I’m going to get a picture of Roger Ebert and Peter [...]

McMegan takes time out from making Jello using her food processor, convection oven, and expensive Japanese ceramic knives to defend the rich from having anything to do with, you know, helping us out from this mess they got us into. In her comments, some crazy socialist suggests that the rich could maybe step it up [...]

For those who once wondered why we held a blogathon for Roy Edroso back in the day, this is why. That was what I hoped for as I watched the thing last night, because as much fun as it is to slag rotten movies, it is much better to be surprised by a good one, [...]