Check out this hilarious Daily Show segment on Tim Geithner's $1.6m house in suburban New York. "If Timothy Geithner is as bad at handling the economy as he is at picking bathroom tiles, he won’t need to sell his house." Yup, Geithner's bathroom...

The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, which was formed to give investors a greater voice in the SEC, has “agreed upon an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda.” Or so says a press release issued by the SEC today. ...

Joe Grano, the former president of Paine Webber and, after UBS bought it, the CEO of UBS Global Wealth Management, told Bloomberg that he wrote a letter to UBS executives last year telling them they should spin of UBS' retail financial advisory...

Financial advisors leaving brokerages for RIAs "not a bubble," but a "long-term trend," said Schwab execs today on conf call.

Please tell me why tax-cheat Charlie Rangel, chm of Ways & Means Committee, is still in office? See WSJ today. http://bit.ly/bYKJz

RT @reasonmag: John Stossel: Why do politicians with no business experience think they can run 15 percent of the economy? http://su.pr/9 ...

"Only in France" Part II: Michelin tire plant workers locked up bosses over layoffs; yet another worker "protest." http://bit.ly/snDAF

NY State's Off Track Betting near bankruptcy. Only a government could ruin a bookie. http://bit.ly/VVpSE