Tag Archives: wall street

Peggy Noonan Despairs That Elites Are Simply Too Decadent These Days

noonan 3724 self-awareness 0

Crack! That blasted girl, that wench, had shattered her final highball glass as Peggy Noonan’s ...

Fox Business Analyst Super Sure Obama Might Resign, Maybe, Because Math And Nixon

math-ers of the universe

Today in Wishful Thinking: Fox Business News ran this tantalizing headline yesterday: “Analyst ...

Wall Street Is Your New Landlord, Please Pay Your Rent Or The Economy Will Crash Again, Thanks!

Banks Win! Banks Win!

How’s that vein in your forehead? Poppin’ fresh? No? You’re happy?! Well that ...

Capitalist Running Dogs Rand Paul And Alan Greenspan Will Teach You Dumb Liberals About Capitalism

how stuff works

Gosh, we are such dumb liberals! We thought we knew all about capitalism, an economic system most of ...

AIG CEO Upset At Being ‘Lynched’ By Taxpayers, With Words

bailout cry-babies

You know what’s hard? Being yelled at for being rich and kinda douchey. Sometimes, wittle fee-fees ...

Wingnut Group Wants To Impeach Obama For Wrecking Stock Market, Dow Hits New Record

Stocks and Bondage And Discipline

Timing is everything. And if you’re the wingnut publication Capitol Hill Daily, which ...

Chris Christie Won’t Be Mitt’s VP Because Chris Christie Knows A Loser When He Sees One

rats and sinking ships and such

For months, political comedy aficionados everywhere have been demanding a Romney-Christie “Odd ...

Breaking: Goldman Sachs Did Not Break Any of Those Laws It Wrote

bad boys bad boys

Good news, bankers! Our long national nightmare of no accountability and massive golden parachutes is ...

Wall Street Donor Asks Obama For Healing Speech Praising Rich People

the true victims of the recession

How was everyone’s May Day? Did you go out and join one of the many actions across the country? ...

Everything About Rick Santorum Is Gross, Like His ‘Creamcup Trust’

dirty real estate deals

Today’s Santorum scandal du jour — which means “a frothy mix, etc.,” in ...

Corzine Basically Last Person on Earth Who Knows How He Lost $1.2 Billion

goldman suchs

Look, guys, Jon Corzine was just as shocked to hear that $1.2 billion in customer funds went missing ...

Republican Strategists ‘Frightened To Death’ By #OWS Movement

capitalism is now a dirty word

While the Occupy Wall Street movement can sometimes seem to be more about tents and police and pepper ...

Oppressed Wall Streeters Do Not Care For These Mean Protesters

crocodile tears

Here is video from Salon’s Justin Elliot of protesters having a merry little tussle this ...

Saturday Is Bank Transfer Day, So What Will You (We) Do?

i hate banks just can't stand 'em

It says a lot about the Internet that the first thing we saw about the November 5 Anti-Bank Action ...

Meet the Smart Anthropologist Anarchist Who Helped Launch #OWS

heroes

Here’s something we don’t say every day: This long, well-written profile in Bloomberg ...

Billionaire Bloomberg Terrorizes #OWS Families Out of Friday Campout

creeps

Wall Street billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been nervously “playing nice” with the ...

Hedge Fund Criminal Gets 11 Years, Which Should Placate Everyone

distractions

A notorious hedge fund manager found guilty of the most blatant insider securities trading since the ...

Where’s Wags? Wall Street Riley Is On ‘The Story’

where's waggaman?

Have you been missing Riley Waggaman’s Wonkette dispatches from the Occupation? So have we! But ...

Here’s the Video of Those Wall Streeters Drinking Champagne Above the Protest

let's drink to the salt of the earth

We haven’t heard from Riley in 18 hours, and fear for the safety of his Monopoly MacBook ...

A Children’s Treasury of Occupy Wall Street Photographs

ken lay is rolling in his grave

Our freedom-fighting Wonkette operative KenLayIsAlive has been part of the Occupy Wall Street ...

Here’s a Portrait of Riley Waggaman Covering the NYC Protests (With a Monopoly Apple Computer)

from our own correspondent

At least the New York Observer is giving a little of the News Hole to the #OccupyWallStreet gang! ...

Last Thousand Or So Americans Still Mad About Economy Stage Protest

'It's starting' kind of maybe

What are these New York City “Day of Rage” protesters angry about this time? We are ...

God Now Aiming Hurricane Irene Directly At Billionaires’ Mansions In the Hamptons

allah is super pissed

Congress will probably figure out a way to get Obama to make the hurricane strike working people in ...

Secret Radical Group On Internet Plans To Occupy & Destroy Wall Street

won't even be on tv unless there's looting

This is probably some kind of obvious trap to collect the 10,000 or so people in America with any ...

Congress Giving Millions of Foreclosed Homes To Wall Street Slumlords

because goldman sachs needs a hand!

Great news, everybody: After deliberately failing to help millions of American families stuck in ...