Hello guys. Today starts Week 5 of my first-ever stint in the ranks of The Unemployed. So this pretty much makes me an expert, right? Journos are like that. A month of furious outreach has yielded a passel of no’s and a foreboding sense that this could take longer than expected.
SEC: The Ultimate Insider
Oh now isn’t this rich: The SEC, stung by its failures in the biggest scam of all time (the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme), is hellbent on a search-and-destroy mission to mete out and vanquish all insider trading. Now a new report shows SEC staffers themselves are extremely effective insider traders. Researchers looked at 56 enforcement […]
Comcast Bid: Ego, Cash & Golf with Obama
A lot more is at stake than mere money in Comcast’s bold $45 billion bear hug of Time Warner Cable. It is a bid to amass the largest collection of cable systems in the world; a battle for clout against the broadcast networks and other content-makers; and a test of efforts to restrict cable with […]
Comcast’s Bold Bid: Brilliant or Betrayal?
Let’s admit it: No one reads “all” of anything anymore, nor wants to do so. It isn’t that we don’t have the time, it’s that we don’t make the time. So here are a few fast, quick thoughts on Comcast’s $45B bid for Time Warner Cable, one of the biggest media deals in years. In fewer than 600 words.
Raising the Minimum Wage: Real Fix or Political Posturing?
Sounding off on the minimum-wage debate. view
How to Spot Online Scammers
Markmonitor chief marketing officer Frederick Felman on how to avoid online scammers selling fake goods. view
Disney 1Q earnings top estimates
Earnings HQ: Dennis breaks down DIS’s first-quarter earnings report. view
Kneale on the DoomSayers: Peter Schiff
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Peter David Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut.
Kneale to Feds: Stay Out of Mortgage Mess
I should have listened to her. Cut to early 2008, brunch at the self-consciously hip Coffee Shop in Manhattan, where the wait staff waits to be discovered by Hollywood, fashion or the next reality TV show. April Charney, a legal-aid lawyer for defaulting homeowners in Jacksonville, Fla., is talking in ominous, apocalyptic tones about the […]
Cisco’s Stimulus Plan Won’t Cost You One Dollar
Just spoke to Cisco chief executive John Chambers here at CNBC headquarters, and he has a new stimulus plan for America—one guaranteed to create hundreds of billions of dollars in cash flow without costing the taxpayer a single dollar in new spending. The Obama administration wants to “crack down” on tax loopholes to skim a […]