It was a good week for bad economic news. But which measures matter most to New Yorkers?

How Jamie Dimon resisted the quick and dirty temptations of Wall Street and put himself in perfect position for the deal, or maybe steal, of the century.

You can’t lose a fortune unless you have it in the first place.

They may be teaching creationism in Tennessee, but Wall Street is and always has been a place where, in the long term, only the fittest survive.

Merrill Lynch’s Stan O’Neal became the first Wall Street CEO to lose his job over the credit crisis. Which megabanker might end up on the chopping block next? A scorecard.

What would it take to send the U.S. economy—and New York’s—into free fall? A doomsday primer.

Even as the Wall Street mob calls for his head, Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince still has his job. How does he do it?

Is it now acceptable to say “fuck” in the office?

Why the guy who bought Chrysler is the ultimate New Yorker.

Maybe you were hoping that hedge funds were another passing fad that you could safely ignore. Well, they are a fad, but they show no evidence of passing, and we are now living in the wildest, most unrestrained financial moment in recent history. So it’s time to stop faking it and figure out what it’s all about.