Should Goldman Sachs (GS) pay its vaunted legions of bankers and traders less money?According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the dominant global investment bank's major shareholders are answerin

When my kids were little, my wife and I would tell them: “Trust is like a LEGO tower. It takes a long time to build it up, but only an instant to knock it down.”I was reminded of this tod

Just when bank executives appear near the peak of this mountain of populist rage, another landslide sends them tumbling back down again. This week has produced several setbacks, and it’s still

The present contains all possible futures. But not all futures are good ones. Some can be quite cruel. The one we actually get is dictated by the choices we make. For the last few months I’ve b

Here are today’s revelations from the DeMark genie, when he isn't busy scaring children and throwing stones. Calgon Carbon (CCC) At long last, the Counntdown Buy signal predicted by the “

Ben Goldstein (not his real name) is a 30-year-old corporate attorney and executive at an outsourcing firm in Manhattan. He earns a 6-figure salary and manages his own 7-figure investment portfolio.

When the financial world collapsed last fall, I held out a strange sense of hope. I thought the government would come in as the only buyer in a landscape of forced sellers. It would buy a lot of asse

Remember the good old days? Back when you and the credit crunch were young, and only those "subprime" people over on the other side of town -- you know, the ones living wildl

On May 1, the United States took a drastic step toward becoming Russia. Not Russia at its best - the motherland of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, or Rachmaninoff. Instead, Russia at its worst: The one that, in

John Thain is a talented guy and he’ll recover from Monday’s stellar effort to shoot himself in both feet. Thain is making the basic mistake of a snippy college kid who got bounced from h