financial crisis
This Woman Held Up a Bank With a Toy Gun to Withdraw Her Own Money
Sali Hafiz said she stormed the bank to help pay for her sister’s cancer treatment. It’s the latest incident of people holding up banks to withdraw their savings in crisis-hit Lebanon.
‘I’ll Do it Again,’ Says Man Who Held Up Bank to Withdraw His Own Money
Faced with huge medical bills for his sick family, Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein held up a bank to withdraw his own savings, and walked free. He speaks to VICE World News about becoming an unlikely public hero.
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Hater Michael Bloomberg Now Says He Wants to Reform Wall Street
For some reason—pause—the presidential candidate has come a long way from when he insisted the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was silly.
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the World's Only Hard Rock Theme Park
And what we can learn from it a decade later.
Okay, Just How Screwed Is Our Economic Future?
We asked an economic historian if our future is as doomed as our past.
Rich People Broke America and Never Paid the Price
Lehman Brothers collapsed ten years ago, exposing a rotten system run only by greed. In an alternate universe, things actually changed.
Do Not Go into Debt to Buy Bitcoin, You Idiots
A professor explains what's going on with the so-called cryptocurrency and why it's probably too late to make a fortune off of it.
Hanging Out with a Millionaire Felon During His Weekend Off from Prison
Two weekends a month, Per Ulrich Karpf gets time off from prison, which he spends living it up in Copenhagen.
A Big Bank Bought Tory VIPs an Exclusive Conference Hideout
Sometimes even Tory ministers just need to get away from Tories.
Porn Stars Talk About Their Day Jobs
"To really make it in porn, you need a lot of talent and a massive dick. Otherwise, you'll have to flip burgers on the side."