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A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk. Continue reading “Mass. woman says TSA confiscated frosted cupcake” »

Stand down, Zuccotti protesters, the banks have heard your calls for reform and are yielding to your demands. The majority of the country has been enveloped in financial turmoil, and one of the big banks is finally taking steps to institute change: Wells Fargo is creating a boutique bank for the super rich. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the wealth management unit will be named “Abbot Downing” and will only service families with more than $50 million in their coffers. Rumor has it, when you open an account you get free Looney Tunes checks. Continue reading “Wells Fargo to Open Bank for Super Rich; Need to Take Finger Off Nation’s Pulse First” »

From The Vandal by Derek Hairlines

If ever there was a better time to highlight the evil that is corporate greed, it is right now. As the world, by which I mean us inconsequential plebeians, suffer the erosion of our salaries, the loss of employment, diminishing savings and for some, just damn hard to feed and clothe your kids, corporate pigs continue to wallow in a vile swill of inconceivable amounts of money. Continue reading “Corporate Greed – The Filthy Pigs” »

Voter Rage Has Members of Congress Worried About Job Security: Their Own

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

WASHINGTON — One of the immutable laws of American politics has been that while voters typically loathe Congress, they tend to tolerate their own lawmaker. Now, with ratings for the institution in the root cellar and approval of individual lawmakers heading there, members of Congress and analysts are beginning to wonder if that law could be repealed next year. Continue reading “The Rising Tide threatens to Sweep Them All Away” »

Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, several people briefed on the matter said on Monday. Continue reading “Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money” »