Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Citigroup announced 11,000 layoffs worldwide. The news gave the stock price a boost. Do layoffs always raise stock prices?

It looks like consumers aren’t the only ones downgrading their opinions of big banks. After revising its criteria for assigning credit ratings to financial institutions, Standard & Poor’s released a new round of ratings that includes some bad news for a few of the biggest members of the banking industry. Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells

Nomi Prins was an investment banker for Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs, then quit and became a muckraking reporter. (I like to imagine that she met the Devil at a crossroads to buy back her soul.) Prins’s banking career accounts for the strengths and the weaknesses of her book, “It Takes a Pillage,” an explanation