“Wall Street” on The Daily Caller

You can bet that Wall Street will be rooting for the New York Giants to pull off a victory against the New England Patriots during Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI. (more)

CONCORD, N.H. — In a speech to New Hampshire legislators Wednesday morning, GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry took a hard line on Wall Street, reaping thunderous applause from Republican representatives, near silence from the Democratic minority and a clamorous mixture of boos and cheers from an activist-filled gallery. (more)

This makes you wonder if Bank of America, which is currently axing 30,000 of its staff globally, already cut their social media team. (more)

NEW YORK (CNBC) – Stocks accelerated their selloff to trade near session lows Wednesday as worsening fears over the euro zone crisis rattled investor sentiment. (more)

In 2009, President Barack Obama said he didn’t run for office to help out “fat cat bankers,” but it appears that he has no problem with fat cat bankers — or the fat cat law firms who represent them — helping him. (more)

President Obama has called people who work on Wall Street “fat-cat bankers,” and his reelection campaign has sought to harness public frustration with Wall Street. Financial executives retort that the president’s pursuit of financial regulations is punitive and that new rules may be “holding us back.” (more)

It’s getting ugly along the manicured lawns of Greenwich, Connecticut, says the New York Post. (more)

Who’s benefiting from the Occupy Wall Street protests? Wall Street. (more)

Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is out of a job now that the Wall Street firm he headed, MF Global, has gone bankrupt, but don’t worry. He’ll be just fine. (more)

On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Washington, D.C.-based CNN contributor Carol Costello asked viewers a truly pressing and important question: How would Jesus feel about the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd? (more)

President Barack Obama’s new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president’s aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently “occupying” New York City’s Zuccotti Park. (more)

In a statement Monday, the Vatican called for major reforms in the world financial system, asking for a ”global public authority” to rule over institutions responsible for “inequalities and distortions of capitalist development.” (more)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s strong statements in support of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement raise an interesting question: Does she, then, oppose the preferential treatment her son received at the hand of the financial industry? (more)

Despite his rhetorical attacks on Wall Street, a study by the Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Project shows that President Barack Obama has received more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past 20 years, including former President George W. Bush. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The jobs crisis isn’t getting worse. But it isn’t getting much better, either. (more)

They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But there’s just one problem: No one in the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to know what “it” is. (more)

One of the complaints of Occupy Wall Street protesters has been that up until last weekend, the protests had largely been ignored by the media. Well, now they’re being noticed. (more)

The golden goodbye has not gone away.

Just last week, Léo Apotheker was shown the door after a tumultuous 11-month run atop Hewlett-Packard . His reward? $13.2 million in cash and
stock severance, in addition to a sign-on package worth about $10 million, according to a corporate filing on Thursday.
At the end of August, Robert P. Kelly was handed severance worth $17.2 million in cash and stock when he was ousted as chief executive of Bank of
New York Mellon after clashing with board members and senior managers. A few days later, Carol A. Bartz took home nearly $10 million from Yahoo
after being fired from the troubled search giant.

A hallmark of the gilded era of just a few short years ago, the eye-popping severance package continues to thrive in spite of the measures put in place
in the wake of the financial crisis to crack down on excessive pay.

Full story: Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Despite Failed Tenures

Business Insider — Who gets screwed if the Supercommittee fails to come to an agreement, triggering automatic spending cuts of $1.5 trillion? (more)