- March 23, 2009
- Sam Waksal Was Right All Along*
The biotech entrepreneur, friend of Martha Stewart, and �Page Six� regular spent five years in jail on insider-trading charges. Just three months after his release, ImClone, the company Waksal founded, was sold for $6.5 billion, on the strength of the breakthrough cancer drug he developed. Did prison change him? Not really. Does he feel vindicated? Absolutely.
- March 9, 2009
- The Most Powerless Powerful Man on Wall Street
How Citi CEO Vikram Pandit finally reached the top� just in time to see the financial system, Citigroup, and all his dreams come crashing down.
- March 9, 2009
- Plastic People
One hundred spenders surveyed in Union Square.
- March 2, 2009
- Mom and Dad and Ruth and Bernie
Our friend the swindler.
- March 2, 2009
- The Monster Mensch
What made Bernie Madoff, a man who helped revolutionize Wall Street and built a completely legal billion-dollar business, perpetrate the greatest fraud in history? And what led Ezra Merkin, born to immense privilege, to enable him?
- February 23, 2009
- Defending Tim Geithner
Wall Street loved the new Treasury secretary but hated his bank-rescue plan. I see it just the other way around.
- February 16, 2009
- Commonwealth
Sure, we want to see Wall Street humbled. But beggaring these guys is bad for New York.
- March 23, 2009
- Why Us?
New Yorkers’ excess of recession depression.
- March 30, 2009
- Lehman’s Taste Futures
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is trying to unwind its aesthetic holdings.
- March 30, 2009
- AIG CEO Mortality Table
AIG CEO Edward Liddy found himself trying to soothe Congress last week after the bonuses blew up.