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SNL pans Goldman Sachs' H1N1 planning (or how Wall Street gets in front of the line everytime)

Simplistic Art (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Obama's Wall Street Banker Buddies Receive H1N1 Vaccine While The Rest of Americans Wait In Long Lines

David Drake (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dear Leader His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Junior made sure his big-donor Wall Street Cronies received H1N1 vaccines last week . US News : The blogosphere and the cable news channels are full of outrage at the fact that Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Citi, and J.P. Morgan have received thousands of doses of H1N1 vaccine, while shortages across New York City have prevented...

Wall Street Execs Get H1N1 Vaccine

Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ah, they can freaking have it.

Wall Street bonuses to rise 40%

Technoccult (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

... which still owe TARP money. The Fed is pressuring [...] Related posts: The Big Takeover: How Wall Street Insiders are Using the Bailout to Stage a Revolution Dean Baker: Wall Street Follows the Path of the Steel Industry in Pittsburgh Wall Street Gambles on Old People Dying

Lieberman: Fort Hood Attack Could Be Terror - Wall Street Journal

Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday

ESPN Lieberman: Fort Hood Attack Could Be Terror Wall Street Journal A senior US senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the US military could have prevented it. US Army Specialist Ryan Hill ... Lieberman: Senate to investigate Ft. Hood shooting The Associated Press Fort Hood soldiers...

Wall Street's bailout gives me déjà vu

Salon (Free subscription) | yesterday

The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way

Trinity Wall Street Rector: After confetti's cleaned up, come back on Sunday

The Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday

After helping the Yankees celebrate title #27 this week, James Cooper, rector of Trinity Wall Street, issued a graciously-worded invitation to fans to come back on Sunday. A homer by any measure, New Jersey native Cooper opined, I am a fan of everyone and anyone, knowing there are no teams in God’s eyes. And I know most of all – despite it being a most un-Yankee-like quality – that in God’s...

Trinity Wall Street Rector: After the confetti, come back on Sunday

The Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday

After helping the Yankees celebrate title #27 this week, James Cooper, rector of Trinity Wall Street, issue a graciously-worded invitation to fans to come back on Sunday. A homer by any measure, New Jersey native Cooper opined, I am a fan of everyone and anyone, knowing there are no teams in God’s eyes. And I know most of all – despite it being a most un-Yankee-like quality – that in God’s game,...

Wall Street firms skittish about RUSAL IPO: report

Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wall Street firms are in a quandary about getting involved with a planned public offering of Russian aluminum producer UC RUSAL because its founder has been barred from getting a U.S. visa on account of allegations that he is connected to organized crime, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

• Wall Street firms skittish about RUSAL IPO-paper - Reuters UK

Wall Street Insider Trading: A Brief History

Time (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

... bars. It requires only a kindergartner's sense of justice to understand why insider trading is a Wall Street no-no: it's unfair. Simply put, insider trading means buying or selling stocks, bonds or other securities based on significant information that's not available to the general public. Besides creating an uneven playing field that disadvantages regular investors, insider trading by...

Discarded mobiles, wire-taps and Mr Bigs. Welcome to Wall Street

Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko all rolled into one. You don't have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall Street Will Hutton The Observer , Sunday 8 November 2009 "Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko's Wall Street all rolled into one. You don't have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider...

• Welcome to Wall Street - The Observer

Wall Street Funnies

CAT IN THE BAG (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wall Street firms skittish about RUSAL IPO-paper

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

CHICAGO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Wall Street firms are in a quandary about getting involved with a planned public offering of Russian aluminum producer UC RUSAL because its founder has been barred from getting a U.S. visa on account of allegations that he is connected to organized crime, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Frank Rich on Wall Street Reform, or not

AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

NYT's Frank Rich : The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many — including Paul Volcker, the chairman of the White House’s own Economic Recovery Advisory Board — to break up too-big-to-fail banks. Those behemoths, cushioned by the government’s bailouts, low-interest loans...

Shift In Harvard MBA Career Path Away From Wall Street May Be Positive Signal For Markets

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday

... According to the index, Harvard graduates are contrary indicators. When they take too many Wall Street jobs, the market is probably overheated and could be heading for a tumble. More specifically, if the share of a given years Harvard MBAs wind up in investment banking exceeds 30 percent, private equity, or hedge funds, the Soifer says that this isa long-term sell signal. If that shareis...