A Montreal financial advisor has disappeared with up to $50 million of his clients’ money. Regulators suspect Earl Jones of Earl Jones Consultant & Administration was running a Ponzi scheme.

It's been busy times hereabouts, so this will be short –  but if you'd like to get the inside scoop on what it was like to sit in the courtroom and watch the biggest fraudster in U.S. history be sentenced, check out this excellent colour piece from The Big Money's ...

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.)