These days, choosing business interests over investor protection is so popular that even celebrity liberal Whoopi Goldberg is pushing for softer securities laws.

There are many ways to fix an accident-prone organization, though I’m partial to the NPR Method, in which moronic blunders are followed by the hasty departure of the offender, and, if called for, a quiet, off-site farewell party for the chief executive.

I don’t want to shock anyone, but I think there’s a lot of cheating going on in Corporate America.

Did somebody say America was having a hard time getting back to work after the financial crisis and ensuing recession? Forget the dopey career counselors who are coaching you to earn a new degree. There’s a job sector poised to enter a new golden age, and it doesn’t even require a high school diploma. So all you aspiring millionaires had better listen up.

It’s hard to imagine why anyone would fleece a widow or an orphan when there are so many inexperienced municipalities and dumb sports team owners to hoodwink.

Politicians are making like Santa Claus and asking business for wish lists of regulations it would like to get rid of.

The year opened with Sandy Weill whining in a New York Times article that he was horrified to be depicted as a greedy, out of touch Wall Streeter for jetting to Cabo on the Citigroup plane weeks after the bank took a $45 billion taxpayer bailout.