Telegraph:

The scale of dissatisfaction in the City emerged in a global survey of finance professionals by recruiters Selby Jennings, which uncovered similar gripes in New York and Singapore.
Globally, 67.2pc of bankers were “unhappy with their overall remuneration package” for 2012, compared with 63.9pc in London. In both London and the global survey, 48.4pc of respondents said their pay was unfair even “when asked to take the current market conditions into account”.

According to this video, a Harvard business professor asked more than 5,000 Americans the above question. Their answers weren't nearly pessimistic enough:

The Girls Gone Wild franchise has filed for bankruptcy. Unfortunately, that's not as good as it sounds. Girls Gone Wild shitball Joe Francis submitted the company for bankruptcy protection after a legal dust up with Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, after Francis allegedly ran up a $2 million gambling debt at Wynn's Las Vegas resort. Sadly:

Girls Gone Wild isn't going away, nor is its unseemly practice of persuading drunken women to take off their clothes for the cameras. Francis seems to be moving pots of money around and taking advantage of the legal system to avoid payment.

This could be an attempt to protect Francis's wealth from Wynn, who also won a $40 million defamation lawsuit after, among other things, Francis allegedly made claims that Wynn threatened to have him murdered over the gambling debt. If there is still any good in this world, Francis will not succeed. Either that, or this conflict will facilitate a death match between the two, in which the 71-year-old Wynn lands a decisive victory because he recently went vegan. Lastly, I am depressed to know any of this, but the headline grabbed me and I could not turn away. Now you know too. You're welcome.

Considering that Robin Kelly won a congressional seat in Illinois last night by running on a pro-gun control platform against a pro-gun NRA-hugger, why not market your business by telling the gun nuts to go fuck themselves with a giant banner in your window?

Flex Training Gym in Seattle was full of clients last night.

"The fuckers," says Slog tipper my dad. "For the GOP, everything's about money."

CNN:

Banks are holding more than $200 million in insurance payments meant for victims of Superstorm Sandy, nearly four months after the storm made landfall, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
The Cuomo administration said it has delivered letters to various banks and mortgage service providers asking they "use maximum discretion and effort to speed the release of funds."

It’s been 24 hours and not a single co-worker has complimented my Princess Diana commemorative plate that I have displayed prominently on my shelf. I think it’s because everyone is really uncomfortable about how rich I’m going to be.

My plate is titled Our Royal Princess and was purchased over the weekend in La Conner, Washington. I paid $12 for it, but I think the woman who sold it to me was a Lifetime Network style benefactor who really just wanted me to be so rich. I was so excited about my plate that I didn’t realize it came with paperwork—a certificate of authenticity plus an advertisement for a wooden plate frame—and a Styrofoam box.

My Princess Diana commemorative plate is hand numbered and is, it says, the second issue in the "Diana: Queen of Our Hearts" collection, which was, “produced on hand-fired porcelain in an edition limited to a maximum of 95 firing days and crafted to the exacting standards of The Bradford Exchange.”

You hear that? Second issue. The Bradford Exchange.

I just wish someone would tell me how rich I am going to be, now that I have this plate in my life. Please let me know.

First Canada kissed their maple-leafy pennies goodbye. Then Paul orchestrated a legally binding Slog poll on whether we should scrap pennies, and then yesterday, a reader announced he'd made a petition to the White House begging them to kill the penny.

It all reminded me of this video from 2010 by John Green, young-adult author/professional nerd, in which he calls pennies "disgusting bacteria-ridden disks of suck that fail to facilitate commerce," points out that coinage reform is too boring for politicians to take up, and also loses it and starts screaming about how terribly inefficient pennies are. Here, watch:

Slog reader Aaron writes:

Inspired by your (legally binding) Slog poll yesterday, I went looking on the White House's page to see if anybody had created a petition for Obama to kill the penny. Nobody had, so I made one. I thought I'd pass it along to the Slog, and maybe the troops would rally.

I looked into it, and apparently, even though Slog polls are legally binding, an overwhelming victory in a Slog poll does not technically count as a petition to the White House. There's a long way to go to hit the threshold of 100,000 signatures, but surely there are a hundred thousand Americans who think we should investigate following Canada's lead and eliminating the penny? Spread the word!

The Canadian penny has been dead for two days, and Canada is still there. Should the United States follow suit?

Originally reported this afternoon by WSJ.com (subscription), the suit will reportedly accuse S&P of fraud concerning its A-OK ratings of mortgage bonds that helped lead to financial crisis. Up until last week, the Justice Department had been in settlement talks with the agency, until it learned that the department would seek a settlement in excess of "10 figures." That's at least one billion dollars, to us plebeians.

More from the New York Times:

Prosecutors, according to the people, have uncovered troves emails by S&P, employees, which the government considers damaging. Portions of those emails are likely to be disclosed in the government’s complaint against S&P.

Well, shit-howdy, this actually put me in a good mood on my shameful, workaday bus ride home, even though they'll probably find a way to dump it all back onto the shoulders of the workingman. Or not. (I'm trying to be less cynical these days.)