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?

What the SEC Might Look Like If It Did Its Job: Susan Antilla Some things get so hopelessly broken they can’t be fixed. I’ve been wondering if the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is one of them.

What I Didn’t Learn From Madoff Report Shocks: Susan Antilla It boasts 457 pages of scandal, deceit and even a little bit of sex, but the “Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Scheme” released by the Securities and Exchange Commission just at the start of Labor Day weekend, left me wanting more.

Retiree Returns Buy Wine Tastings, Golf Rounds: Susan Antilla With securities regulators getting more aggressive about tracking down and punishing miscreants, it’s harder and harder to make a buck the easy way these days. Ponzi schemers are going to jail. Brokers who lied about the risks of auction-rate securities are flooded with lawsuits.

Buffett Informs, Schwab Whines on Op-Ed Pages: Susan Antilla Big shots in finance get lots of chances to mouth off to the public from their bully pulpits. How they use that clout tells much about what they are made of.

Iraq Vet Asks Why Securities Overseers Can’t See: Susan Antilla In case you didn’t mark your calendar, August is shaping up as the first-ever “Be Mean to Securities Regulators” month. Palms already are sweaty at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where They Who Didn’t Catch Bernie await a report from the agency’s Inspector General, David Kotz, who will explain by month’s end how the SEC missed the Madoff scam even after being tipped off to it.

Madoff Got Cozy With SEC, Ran Ponzi Scheme on Old IBM (Update1) Bernard Madoff, the Ponzi scheme meister, isn’t the kind of guy who wins charm contests. Just ask a prospective client who came calling one day in the 1990s.