With his lively writing and cynical humor, this author, a partner in a private equity firm, is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed, folly and deceit whose rules seem lifted from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.

FORBES: Making a Killing

If we allow Wall Street stockbrokers to guide plan participants, then they will make better decisions and have more money in their retirement accounts to live on in their golden years.

FORBES: More Worries for Defined Contribution Plan Fiduciaries (August 31, 2006)

David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been our guide through a dramatic year and joins us one more time.

NPR: Economy Is Not Off Life-Support Yet

Aimed at the Wall Street crowd, the Cap Markets Guide features a similar mix of analyses from industry experts (Tabb Group, Accenture, Columbia University, Algorithmica Research, Aite Group and more), financial services vendors (Revolution Analytics, BT Global Services, Numerix, Deloitte, Panopticon Software AB, Algo Technologies and more) and Sybase executives.

FORBES: Here's Why I'm Not Impressed by Alaska Airlines' iPad Rollout

You simply guide your car along the track, hoping to avoid any calamitous wall hits and praying that your upgrades are enough to get you remotely close to first place.

FORBES: EA's Real Racing 3 Review: The Waiting Game

If history is any guide, Mr. Obama and New York Senator Chuck Schumer will now persuade Wall Street to underwrite this campaign.

WSJ: Obama vs. Wall Street

The labels are informative little essays nicely placed like slanted tabletops, below sightline. (The cartoonish icons for the audio guide, however, are inexplicably placed right next to the paintings on the wall.) And the subtopics landscape and portraiture, what was painted overseas versus what was created back home in America, etc.

WSJ: Americans in Florence | Palazzo Strozzi | The Florentine Mix | By Peter Plagens