This time, his target wasn't his former employer. It was the federal government, which he said did its best to protect top leaders of American finance. Bowen lost his job as senior vice president and senior chief underwriter in Citigroup after he...

A participant said the meeting, around a large, round table at New York University, was “like an interactive boardroom meeting”. Heavy hitters included Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America, Robert Rubin, the former treasury secretary...

Citigroup, a mammoth merger of investment and commercial banking that created the largest financial institution in the world — and one that eventually had to be bailed out with taxpayer funds to avoid economic disaster for millions of ordinary Americans.

And it has meant balancing the urge to use government spending to create jobs and invest in public programs with the imperative to curb the nation’s debt. “Gene is deeply committed to a traditional, Democratic, FDR perspective on policy issues,” former...

Creation of a robust library ecosystem, including the phasing out of Adobe DRM (not possible overnight, alas) should be among the top priorities. I hope that OverDrive CEO Steve Potash and Venture’s people, including an advisory board with former U.S....

He also knows that Citigroup -- where Robert Rubin, who preceded Summers as Clinton's treasury secretary, played leading roles during a critical time -- specialized in precisely the mortgage and other debt packages and insurance scams that were the...