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Susan Antilla is a columnist for Bloomberg News. She is a financial writer and author of "Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street's Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment." The opinions expressed are her own.
Regulator’s Client Pitch Hit Little Guy in Head: Susan Antilla In an era when taxpayers are
subsidizing Wall Street bonuses and a populist president is
embracing financiers, I guess I won’t shock you with news that a
top securities regulator tried to sell a service to help
businesses keep employee and customer disputes out of court.
Hot Seat for SEC Chief Schapiro Won’t Cool Off: Susan Antilla The chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission has a past that is fast coming back to haunt
her.
Brokers’ Lawyer Says Finra Understated Merger Payment (Update1) A lawyer for securities firms suing
the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said sealed
documents show its executives understated how much they could
pay brokers in the 2007 merger that created the oversight body.
Wall Street’s Closet Critics Blast Their Own: Susan Antilla Readers have had a lot to say about
the goings-on of Wall Street over the past month.
Suckers of the Future Groomed With Stock Game: Susan Antilla Credit freezes, sleazy stockbrokers,
and auction-rate securities gone bad have done wonders to drum
up enthusiasm for financial literacy. So who could fault the
Securities and Exchange Commission for recruiting Kathleen M.
Floyd as its new deputy director of investor education last
month?
Main Street Tells Wall Street, ‘Get a Real Job’: Susan Antilla Wall Street, meet Eric W. Haugaard, a
civil engineer who designs water and sewer-line systems for the
North Carolina Department of Transportation. Haugaard says he
had tears in his eyes as he watched Barack Obama’s acceptance
speech, hopeful that politics would get more constructive and
the economic crisis would get fixed.
Today, he is disgusted when he thinks about “what Wall
Street has done to average, honest, tax-paying, no-loopholes
citizens,” and says it makes him ill when h
Wall Street Cries ‘Feed Me’ or World Will End: Susan Antilla In the musical comedy “Little Shop of
Horrors,” a dangerous and gluttonous plant dubbed “Audrey II”
signals its insatiable appetite for human blood with a baritone
demand, “feed me.”
You Cheat, I Cheat, as Wall Street Acts as Model: Susan Antilla Trickle down really does work.
Consider these inspired words, from an online reader of USA
Today, reacting last week to news that Americans were lying,
cheating and law-breaking to get their hands on an $8,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers:
Insider Trading Bust Shows SEC May Have a Pulse: Susan Antilla The Securities and Exchange
Commission’s Big Bust on Friday is an example of everything
that’s right, and everything wrong, with the agency that’s been
bungling its job of keeping the financial markets safe.
Dave’s Office Sex Gives Reasons CBS Should Worry: Susan Antilla Can we get a few things straight
about sex in the office?