Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.