Wall Street

• A Job For Simon Cowell

  By Steve Piontek  |  January 12, 2010

  I’ve never been a regular viewer of ‘American Idol,’ but whenever I did watch it, Simon Cowell, the ruthlessly acerbic judge, was the one whose ...

• Blood Is Boiling

  By Steve Piontek  |  December 21, 2009

  My blood started boiling as I read a Dec. 15  article in the New York Times  coming in to work about how executives of three large banks—Goldman ...

• Wall Street's Marie Antoinette

  By Steve Piontek  |  November 23, 2009

  As if Goldman Sachs did not already have enough image problems as the biggest pig at the Wall Street trough, it is now the most ...

• Too Big To Fail?

  By Steve Piontek  |  October 29, 2009

  Here we are in November already, well past the first-year anniversary of the Panic of 2008, and any heat, not to mention action, on financial ...

• Caveat Emptor

  By Steve Piontek  |  July 27, 2009

  Hold on to your wallets, folks. The stock market has been on a winning streak and Wall Street is starting to feel its oats once again.  ...