Wall Street crash movie: Too big to fail or box office flop?
The Big Short, a newly released Hollywood film about the 2007–2008 crash, has so far performed well at the box office and received acclaimed reviews – it features several big stars although it deals with a subject many perhaps would rather sooner forget. Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling star in a tale about Read More
Justice Department makes it official: Big banks given green light to steal money
After spending the last decade touting their protected status of either “too big to fail” or “too big to jail,” the world’s largest banks, operating in the heart of the financial district of New York, have been given the greatest gift imaginable by the Justice Department. In their new guidelines on prosecution of corporate crime, Read More