It appears that movies like Wall Street are making a good impression on the younger generation. Teenage respondents on a Monster.co.uk study picked being a banker as their top second dream career, according to the Daily Mail. The driving factor behind their top career picks is wealth, with 25 percent of teens saying monetary success is the main reason they admire their role model. According to Read more

Tis the season to be receiving your bonus at the end of the year! Whether it be spending, saving, or investing, I want to know what you're doing with your year-end bonus. The holidays are also a spendy season, so I'm wondering if you tend to spend more giving that you're also going to have some extra cash. Meanwhile, in Wall Street news, the bonuses are back, and some of the big banks are on Read more

It's important for people to know how and why our global economy came crashing down in 2008. Inside Job, a documentary by Charles Ferguson, makes the concepts behind the financial meltdown easy to digest. At the same time, it's hard to swallow the fact that several key people in the government worked for the best interests of the banks and not the greater good of the American public. In fact, the Read more

The former New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, had a life with all the makings of a realistically raw and heart-pounding film. It's no wonder that the documentary that captured moments of his rise and his downfall, Client 9, makes for a scintillating watch. When Eliot became the attorney general for New York, he became a crusader of justice for the people and dared to fight the big banks on Wall Read more

Looks like there's a long way for us to climb. With the exception of single young ladies, our gender is "worth less" on Wall Street, a traditionally male-dominated industry. According to government data analyzed by Bloomberg, women in that industry earned 58.8 cents to every dollar men made in 2007. More dishearteningly, recent research showed that although 85 percent of PR workers are women, men Read more

It's the Ig Nobel prize time again! This time I truly laughed out loud when I read who the winners were for the economics category of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prizes. In addition to silly research such as documenting bat fellatio and curing asthma with roller coaster rides, Wall Street firms were among the ranks of the duly acknowledged. Kudos went out to "the executives and Read more

The Situation and the rest of the Jersey Shore cast opened America for business this morning when they rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. So this is our economy now? View 4 Photos › Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Read more