organized crimes New study shows that Mafia accountants are really good at their jobs Thom Dunn

financial engineering Financialization is wearing out its welcome Cory Doctorow

stock buybacks Apple's world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump's tax cuts Cory Doctorow

trickle-down economics Wells Fargo cuts 26,500 jobs, shutters branches, declares "excess capital" and drops $40.6 billion on stock buybacks Cory Doctorow

invitation homes Wall Street landlords are slumlords Cory Doctorow

parasitism All that stuff that was "killed by the net"? The real culprit was hedge funds Cory Doctorow

rewarding failure Guillotine watch: The executives who bankrupted Toys R Us this year want $16M-$32M in bonuses for their performance Cory Doctorow

gary cohn Trump's top economic advisor asks CEOs to raise hands if they're going to use tax cuts to invest, boggled by no one raising hands Cory Doctorow

buybacks Companies' self-devouring buyback spree is finally slowing down Cory Doctorow