Wall Street Needs a Heavy Dose of Brooksley Born: David Pauly If the U.S. government is serious about fixing the banking system, it will hire people like Brooksley Born, and pay them heed.

Bank Investors Throw Money at Ailing Companies: David Pauly Investors are oblivious. Didn’t bank stocks drop as much as 90 percent during the subprime mortgage fiasco?

General Motors Bondholders Might Take 20 Percent: David Pauly It will be a shame if General Motors Corp. goes into bankruptcy proceedings simply because the U.S. government and the automaker’s bondholders can’t compromise.

Fiat Plus Chrysler Plus Opel Is One Crazy Idea: David Pauly Fiat SpA Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is nuts.

If Banks Are Too Big to Fail, Take an Ax to Them: David Pauly Every town’s Main Street Trust & Savings Bank should be the model for preventing future financial debacles.

Newspapers Are on Fast, Worrisome Path to Oblivion: David Pauly I just hope I die before all the newspapers do.

AIG Pay Uproar Not Worth 1% of Our Time: David Pauly (Update1) Do the math: $165 million (the size of the headline-grabbing bonuses paid to some American International Group Inc. employees) is what percent of $183 billion (the amount of government bailout money that has gone to AIG)? It comes out to 0.09016 percent.

Penny Stock GE Tempts Exasperated Money Manager: David Pauly To the amazingly loyal shareholders of Sophocles Value Fund:

Buffett Assumes New Role as Lender of Last Resort: David Pauly Warren Buffett is having a bad year or two.

Will Amazon’s Kindle 2 Make Our Library Obsolete?: David Pauly Innovations always cause trouble. When writing was invented, some worried that it would destroy people’s memories -- which had been the only way stories and information were passed on for generations.