Hey, did you get your year end bonus yet? The bros at Goldman Sachs sure did, to the tune of $600K per employee, on average. Yep, $600,000 dollars, a number that stands out in a year when most Wall Street bonuses, though still obscene, are either diminished or staying even with previous years. In fact, 600K is double the average bonus paid at other firms, according to Reuters. Other banks may be wilting under fourth......

Just last week Jeremy Blake's body was identified after being found off the coast of New Jersey. In July he and his girlfriend committed suicide one week apart from each other, and since then stories of their lives, fears and final days have surfaced. After the LA Times extensive piece, the NY Post recently published a lengthy article on the couple, who at the time were living in a converted rectory at St. Mark's Church......

Starbucks went toe to toe with Ethiopia and the coffee behemoth lost. In the ever advancing world of provenance establishment and disclosure of our of our food and beverage sources, the African nation was seeking to trademark some of its coffee growing regions for the purpose of increasing value in the world markets. Starbucks on the other hand has no interest in seeing anything that would drive the price of a venti any closer to......

Everyone is excited, rightly so, about the donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to NYC public schools: $51.2 million to open 67 small high schools. Large failing high schools would be turned into smaller theme-based schools so students will get more personalized attention, an effort to curb the dropout rate as well as failures to meet the state's student standards. It seems some were more amused by other factors: - The sight of......