With bank and automaker CEOs taking most of the heat this year, it’s been a while since we’ve had an alleged investment firm scandal leading financial pages. But this month’s insider-trading arrest of senior managers at The Galleon Group, a Wall Street hedge fund, produced plenty of headlines and no doubt has your audience pondering [...]
Much to the amusement of my passengers, one of the six pre-set buttons on my satellite radio tuner is dedicated to the Sirius Road Dog Trucking Network. I’ve never driven a tractor rig, but the industry which touches perhaps more of our daily life than any other save television has too many intriguing business story [...]
The New York Times and PBS’s “Frontline” teamed up to take a closer look at credit, debit and prepaid cards with “The Card Game” series. The latest story focuses on the fees that prepaid-card users incur before even using the cards. The nut graf of business reporter Andrew Martin’s story for The Times says: For [...]
Investors may soon be turning their attention to silver, as news coverage Tuesday reported a low gold-to-silver ratio and predicted that silver may out-pace gold throughout the next year. Bloomberg News provided a great chart to show the ratio of gold-to-silver. The chart was a line graph that showed the ratio changes from late 2007 [...]
National Public Radio launched a series looking at the increased use of foreign companies to fix airplanes and some problems that have resulted. Correspondent David Zwerdling takes listeners to El Salvador to talk with workers at one of the repair companies. David says: This is just one of at least three troubling maintenance mistakes that [...]
Couldn’t make it to Los Angeles today for our workshop in investigative business reporting? Check out the archive of our blog from the full-day with Jimmy Gentry and Jim Steele, two powerhouses in the are of investigative business journalism. Just click the “replay” and read some highlights from today’s workshop. In fact, did you know [...]
It used to be an older crowd on Twitter. But the Pew Internet study on Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009 indicates that as the number of Twitter users grows, they are also growing older. “Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to [...]
Running a shopping mall must be a dismal task these days. With consumers proudly dubbing themselves “frugalistas” and embracing cheap chic, mass merchandisers are luring this new wave of penny pinchers but times are grim for traditional department stores, specialty boutiques and moderate-to-upscale national chains. And the malls that house them are looking more pockmarked [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. is going to boost small-business lending. President Barack Obama is expected to announce a series of initiatives Wednesday aimed at boosting credit to small businesses, the WSJ says. Check out this archived live blog of our workshop on the economy, including some great tips and links [...]
