Tag: WALL ST

With Wall Street in disgrace and the economy in a nosedive, where should the country turn for financial advice? Would you ever think gamers? Since 2003, players on the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Entropia has been steadily building an economy that now boasts a daily turnover of $1.25 million per day. Entropia sports a real cash economy model of play where monetary ...

While their men sit in front of financial Web sites sobbing, Wall Street wives and girlfriends are now logging onto their own Web sites and commiserating, according to the London Times. The blog, called Dating a Banker Anonymous, affords "DABA Girls" the opportunity to bemoan the dwindling passions (and allowances) they face in the wake of the economic downturn. Precariously perched between ...

The facepalm is an expression that seems to be getting a lot of use lately, particularly on trading floors around the world as various global economic markets crumble. Traders hopped up on caffeine and sugar seem to be particularly emotive when things take a turn for the worse, making them quite entertaining to look at. That has spawned an aptly titled new site called "The Brokers with Hands on ...