This Week In Cheating
How else are they supposed to exploit people and make billions? Geesh. I suppose you think health care "reform" will change everything, too, right?
How else are they supposed to exploit people and make billions? Geesh. I suppose you think health care "reform" will change everything, too, right?
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
Ever heard of Sky Capital? Probably not. The CEO of that rinky-dink Wall Street firm and five of his employees were indicted this week over what the S...
Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
As we all know by now, the financial crisis was caused by a series of systematic failures -- botched regulations, corporations that grew to be too big...
Michael Martin | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
The SEC has charged Angelo Mozilo with civil fraud and insider trading. Civil fraud charges also were filed against Countrywide's former chief operat...
AP | MARCY GORDON and GREG RISLING | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of fallen mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Co...
Business Insider | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 05.13.2009 | Business
The man who was once lauded as the greatest friend to the homeowner for happily extending credit to anyone with a pulse is looking at possible civil f...
Portfolio | Posted 04.21.2009 | Business
We asked a group of eight former prosecutors and other legal experts (some of whom asked to remain anonymous) about which of the meltdown's disgraced ...
David Fiderer | Posted 02.20.2009 | Business
Instead of pinpointing culpability among the key players, Time deflects blame away from Republicans and falsely implicates Democrats, to create a muddleheaded "plenty-of-blame-to-go-around" narrative.
Lori Mozilo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
When the mortgage crisis broke, there was as flurry of innuendos and allegations about Angelo and Countrywide. However, reporters are merely recycling misinformation they've gotten from each other.
Jim Randel | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
I worry when we as a society turn over-zealous in looking to personalize and find villains for problems (the housing bust and credit crunch) for which we all have responsibility.
LA Times | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business
Apparently clicking "reply" when he meant to hit "forward," Countrywide Financial Corp. Chairman Angelo Mozilo ignited an online furor Tuesday by desc...
AP | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business
CALABASAS, Calif. — A securities filing shows Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo earned about $10.8 million in total compensation and...
Muckraked! | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business
From Muckraked! When it comes to assigning blame for his firm's collapse, Alan Schwartz, the president and CEO of Bear Stearns, borrows a page from C...
CNN | Posted 03.08.2008 | Business
The FBI has launched an investigation into the lending practices of battered home lender Countrywide Financial Corp., according to a report in The Wal...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Three corporate executives called in for a shaming by Democratic lawmakers Friday defended raking in hundreds of millions of dollar...
Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Corp., is giving up $37.5 million of severance pay, fees and benefits in ...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
One of the things that has clearly outraged Americans everywhere is the disgusting spectacle of CEOs legally looting their companies with pay and pe...
Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business
The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...
Motley Fool | Morgan Housel | Posted 12.05.2007 | Business
CEOs don't have the easiest jobs in the world. Being responsible for leading an organization with needy employees, unreasonable suppliers, and impatie...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
Think Progress flags David Brooks telling...
While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy