Tomorrow marks the four year anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers … and the moment when our economy went off the cliff.
Today, with an economy that’s still just sputtering along, Wall Street has come roaring back. Why is the S & P up 14 percent when nearly every bit of real economic news is bad? And has anything really changed …
The markets hold many mysteries, and here’s a big one: Why the heck is the S&P 500, up 14% this year, behaving as though we’re living large when nearly every piece of real economic data is depressing?
Women played a traditional role at the national political conventions of the past two weeks, especially in the speeches given by Ann Romney and Michelle Obama. The first lady and the Republican candidate’s wife both used the lens of the family to argue that their husbands should be president. This week on WNYC’s Money Talking, TIME’s …
The new fall TV season marks a happy resurrection: The Pyramid, the most recent update of the 20th-Century classic game show The $10,000 [$25,000] [$100,000] Pyramid, this version from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? creator …
A weak economy usually spells disaster for an incumbent president. But there are three key factors keeping Obama ahead in the polls.
What is the most vulnerable part of the financial system today? Who owns your mobile data? For answers to these questions and a look ahead at the most interesting business news, check out WNYC’s Money Talking. Listen below:
It’s rare that a United Nations report can engender optimism about anything, let alone America’s finances. But a recently issued (and mostly overlooked) study from the global body’s International Human Dimensions Program might …
Pregnant tech superstar Marissa Mayer’s appointment to be CEO of Yahoo has people talking about the struggle for work-life balance. But another big question is whether celebrity CEOs are the best people to execute successful corporate turnarounds. Listen to Joe Nocera and me talk about this, as well as whether the Olympic Games actually …
The appointment of pregnant Silicon Valley superstar Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo this past week has become the latest news peg for an ongoing debate about women, work and family-balance that has been raging in the media for the …
Silicon Valley likes leaders with star power, and they don’t come any bigger than Marissa Mayer, the newly anointed head of Yahoo. Her resume is surely the template for a post-modern, information-age celebrity CEO — Stanford artificial intelligence degree, employee No. 20 at Google, developer of the iconic white search page, user …
On this week’s edition of WNYC’s Money Talking, Rana Foroohar of Time and Joe Nocera of the New York Times weigh in on whether the Dodd-Frank financial reform law would have prevented the financial snafus that have plagued the banking sector recently.
The LIBOR scandal unfolding across the Atlantic has huge ramifications for American consumers.
