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June 11, 2010
Reports are surfacing that BP is finally considering a suspension of its shareholder’s dividend, but what could have been done differently to avert the public relations nightmare BP is facing? Two CNBC hosts had some ideas about that, and about what…
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June 8, 2010
We’ve heard politicians, even conservative Republicans, suggest BP would be held completely responsible for the devastation caused by the oil spill plaguing the Gulf of Mexico, even if it means its very existence.
That in fact might be the…
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June 6, 2010
How’s this for outside-the-box thinking – use nuclear explosives to stop the BP oil spill that is ravaging the Gulf Coast?
According to some of the panelist on Fox News Channel’s “Forbes on Fox,” using nuclear materials would be a more…
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June 4, 2010
The advocacy fear-mongers have repeatedly zeroed in on what the American public eats. Whether it’s fat, salt, sugar – there is a seemingly endless list of what is good for you and what isn’t. Recently one of the foods these self-proclaimed food…
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November 18, 2008
Gas prices have been in freefall lately, offering a little solace to nervous consumers. But as the Business & Media Institute has documented, many in the media seem to pine for last summer’s “pain at the pump” stories…
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June 3, 2010
With China
holding over
$700 billion in U.S. debt, a lot of caution has been applied to the diplomatic
relations between the United States
and China
by the Obama administration. However, gone relatively unnoticed has been the
expansion of the…
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November 17, 2008
Perhaps Newton’s Third Law applies to economics also: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
That’s the way it seemed when Cameron Hanover’s Peter Beutel appeared in an…
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November 17, 2008
Victoria’s Secret, the well-known lingerie retailer, is being sued by a woman who claims the company’s bra had formaldehyde in it and made her “utterly sick.”
ABC’s “Good Morning America…
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November 12, 2008
It was a perfect triple-play of anti-free market, pro-regulation and pro-Democrat bias – with some old fashioned class warfare thrown in for good measure.
In a segment of CBS’s Nov. 12 “The…
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May 21, 2010
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) taking another tumble of 376 points on May 20, some investors are pointing to problems in Europe for the sell-off. However, there may be problems at home as well.
CNBC’s CME Group floor reporter Rick…
