I Slept Through My Nine O’Clock

I feel great. I never sleep like this. All warm and toasty and swaddled in goose down. Wow. What’s better than sleeping late? I may never get out of bed. What time is it? Nine thirty. I bet it snowed last night. Probably need to shovel the driveway. No way....

Health Care Makes Me Sick

Aetna reinstates customer who made $64 error I haven’t followed the pending health care legislation. Not closely anyway. But from personal experience, I know something needs to give. Health care is broken: pre-existing conditions, reliance on employers,...

I, Bonus

Taxing Banks for the Bailout On Wednesday night I spoke at the Rotary Club in Boston. We discussed my novel, Top Producer, but concentrated on Wall Street and the topic of bonuses. It seems everybody wants the finance industry to justify its compensation. Bank CEOs...

CIOs Wanted for Managing Director Positions

(By a Leading Hedge Fund in Greenwich, CT) Times are tough. So to help out, I’m running the following job description submitted by a headhunter from Manhattan. This is an unpaid advertisement, which I’m featuring as a service to my readers. Job Ref. MN...

Would You Spend 40 Months in Prison for $550 Million?

U.S. Is Said to Consider Easing Informant’s Term Bradley C. Birkendfeld is scheduled to start a 40-month prison sentence on Friday, January 6. He’s the banker who exposed UBS’ illegal activities and is now claiming a 30 percent whistleblower’s...