When Bernie Madoff applied to run the budget of the Butner Prison's landscaping crew, he didn't get the job. "Yeah right I'd hire him as a clerk," rem...

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

Hollywood may be remaking Wall Street, but the days of Gordon Gekko and the "greed is good" mantra are behind us. Now it's becoming a reality in the investment community.

CEOs are getting major boosts in their pensions, while the pensions of most Americans have either disappeared or take a major hit.

Invoking greed to explain what happened with Wall Street actually explains little. The mystery isn't why people are greedy; it's how greed gets the better of them.

Attached with the bailout of the FMs and the remaining institutions surely to follow will be a veiled warning to the American taxpayer: "we had to bail them out. If they go down the tubes, so does America!"