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by Huang Hung

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Huang Hung is a columnist for China Daily, the English language newspaper in China. She is also an avid blogger with more than 100 million page views on her blog on sina.com.

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Wei Sun Christianson, Morgan Stanley China's CEO and managing director, is the kind of woman others admire, pulling off deals with aplomb while juggling a family. But she does need to catch up on her movies.

by Charlie Gasparino

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Charlie Gasparino is a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His new book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, was published by HarperBusiness.

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Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was smug and reckless, but he wasn't criminally negligent, a new report says. So despite the public's blood lust, he won't be charged for his role in the biggest bankruptcy in modern history.

by Charlie Gasparino

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Charlie Gasparino is a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His new book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, was published by HarperBusiness.

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Obama's banking czar just delivered his reform proposal and the big banks finally have something to snicker about-because he's leaving untouched the risky trades that played a leading role in the financial crisis.

by Allan Dodds Frank

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Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.

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Obama's Treasury secretary came under heavy fire on the Hill, brushing off attacks on the AIG rescue and calling for tough new regulation, but Allan Dodds Frank says his testimony may have saved his job.

by Charlie Gasparino

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Charlie Gasparino is a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His new book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, was published by HarperBusiness.

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The hearings into the roots of the recession aren't scaring Wall Street. What's really frightening is public anger at the industry shows no signs of abating, and Lloyd Blankfein, the man leading the charge to turn that around, is only making matters worse-and possibly putting his job at risk.

As 2009's bonus season arrives, The Daily Beast examines how this year's payouts got so big, the political fallout-and why huge bonuses may not be a bad thing after all.

by Simon Johnson

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Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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Citi was conspicuously absent from Day 1 of the hearings probing the origins of the financial crisis-but the bailed-out bank is sure to get a grilling from investigators. Simon Johnson on why unrepentant former Citi titans Sandy Weill and Robert Rubin also need a day in the court of public opinion.

by Roger Martin

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Roger Martin is Dean at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He writes extensively on corporate strategy, executive compensation and governance, business design and integrative thinking. His most recent book is The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Press, 2009). Read more on his Web site at www.rogerlmartin.com.

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Paying executives in stock, a likely proposed remedy at today's hearings on the financial meltdown, is just another way for Wall Street to fix the results.