More than a dozen companies pay each of their corporate board members more than $500K annually for meeting an average of eight times per year. Those board members help set the CEO’s pay—and their own. They all tend to get paid well, somehow.

The issue that the most Americans regard as the most important one facing our country right now is terrorism. Fear is more powerful than reason. Not that there has ever been a reason to doubt that.

“Private equity firms charged $20 billion of ‘hidden fees’ to almost 600 companies they owned in the last two decades,” according to a new study. Remember: it’s lazy welfare recipients who are robbing this country blind.

A good diet is one that drains you both physically and spiritually.

Now there is a product for sale called “Protein Cheerios” and—surprise—it is not a good source of protein, for you, the consumer.

The mainstream media is but one slice of the paid writing world. The deeper you go, the murkier it gets.

Hee hee, ha ha, the New York state lottery has a new series of television ads coming out that pokes fun at the idle rich. Oh ho! Lottery advertising executives should be locked in jail for fraud.

ATM fees now are very, very, very expensive. Very expensive.

Earlier this week, TMZ reported on the strange case of a 17-year-old girl who claimed that the youngest and most popular Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, had been stalking and harassing her, and even staged a car accident in an attempt to kill her. The teen went as far as filing a temporary restraining order against Kylie…

Hello, Donald Trump supporters. Donald Trump believes that you are very fucking dumb. And you are proving him correct.

The Times’ Michael Wilson has a great piece on psychics who’ve been convicted of crimes going before parole boards and coming clean about their practices: “‘You don’t think there’s any legitimate psychics out there?’ she was asked. ‘If they are taking your money... they are not for real.’”

Hedge funds—which, as an asset class, are a scam—charge exorbitant fees in exchange for the sort of top-tier investment skill you supposedly can’t get with a dirt cheap index fund. A new study says that is bullshit. http://gawker.com/everyone-knows…

Prominent Crossfit entrepreneur Joshua Newman is being sued by a business partner who alleges that he lied and defrauded investors. Look, if you’re not strong enough to defend your own money without the interference of government “laws,” don’t invest in Crossfit.

If you are a member of the savvy “millennial” generation you stand for two things: authenticity, and hipness. And you know god damn well in your little black hearts that no bank is more authentic—and hip—than Bank of America.

The enormous pension fund Calpers, which recently stopped investing in hedge funds, says it will cut in half the number of outside investment managers it employs in order to reduce the fees it pays to Wall Street. Shoddily managed state pension funds across America, take note.

A Times Square fortune teller was arrested for bilking some loser out of $713,975 over the course of 20 months. This schmuck was in love with a woman who did not love him back. Then, she died. The fortune teller said she could resurrect her. It didn’t work out.

Rhonda Byrne got very very rich by writing a book called The Secret, which contains much pseudoscientific/ mystical horse shit. Why can’t Rhonda Byrne get THE SECRET to work for herself?

Metropolitan hot dog vendor Ahmed Mohammed is in hot water—he’s been fired after he was found to be charging tourists $30 for a hot dog. So... when are they giving him the key to the city? DeBlasio?

Federal officials are in the process of reaching a settlement with a Tennessee family who allegedly operated several fraudulent charities and used the funds to live large. The Associated Press reports that the family would “buy themselves cars, gym memberships and take luxury cruise vacations, pay for college tuition…

Yesterday, the city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against the $284 billion bank Wells Fargo alleging that the company pressured employees into defrauding unwitting customers. Isn’t that something?