This year's award goes to SIFMA (the lobbying group for banks like Citigroup and B of A) who created a multinational "cashroots" campaign to portray its clients as "part of the solution" to the financial crisis.

On the day that Punxsutawney Phil emerged to predict a long hard winter, Americans picked up the newspaper to read that AIG, the bankrupt insurance ...

Will the rich nations of the EU live up to their vows and come to the rescue of troubled Greece? Will the EU allow a new suitor, the IMF, to come to the rescue?

Not satisfied with bringing the global economy to the brink, Goldman now appears to be devoting time and energy to cyber attacks on bank reform campaigners.

Like Icarus, Goldman and other big banks who have engaged in these massive deals are flying a little to close to the sun.