70% of Americans want bonuses banned at taxpayer-supported banks.

The seniors were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of fixed income danced in their heads.
And Geithner at Treasury, and I at the Fed,
Had hooked up the banks with a risk-free spread.

Hot links for morning reading and enlightenment.

Imagine a world in which Coca-Cola ($KO) barely scrapes by while the guy who refills the soda machines is on the cover of Fortune Magazine with a cigar dangling out of his mouth, his boot atop a case of Diet Coke. It is almost exactly like the world that Netflix ($NFLX) currently inhabits.  The company…

When everything is shouted into a megaphone (repeated across 500 websites), it all sounds so urgent and essential. But it isn’t.

Video.

The long, tragic shadow cast by the Madoff Ponzi lengthens…

Nassim Taleb’s career and non-finance interests.

Seriously, stop sharing already. Like, for a minute.

Three interesting silver and gold stories to leave you with…