It's a silvery grey day in Manhattan, and most media eyeballs are fixed firmly on the protests in London in the lead-up to the G-20 meeting tomorrow. But here in America, there's a certain banker-bashing fatigue creeping in. (Perhaps that's because we've moved on to bashing auto-company executives instead.)

Yesterday I argued that AIG employees should keep the multi-million-dollar bonuses that have created a public outcry in the United States, despite the fact that the company has been handed billions of tax dollars to stay afloat. That post forced another journalist to reply: "Yes, and Haliburton should not be ...

Just a heads-up for anyone following this blog that a really great issue of Canadian Business (if I do say so myself) is hitting newsstands tomorrow. The cover package is a journal of a cross-country trip staff writer Joe Castaldo took a few weeks ago, to "take the pulse" of ...

OK, here is the deal. I am like a lot of people who don't take home millions, although I once thought I was gonna be the next Jeff Skoll thanks to stock options that I (supposedly) had as City of London venture capitalist back when Whoopi Goldberg was pushing Flooz.com. ...

Finally, someone is going after bankers’ bonuses. Hurray, I say. I’ve been pontificating on getting those bonuses back, so it’s nice to see some confirmation we’re not tilting at windmills.

Attended a fund-raiser last night here in Toronto and the main topic of conversation around the table was of course the bad news etc out of New York this week. Lehman filing for bankruptcy protection, AIG getting bailed out by the U.S. government, Merrill Lynch getting sold to Bank of ...