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...hard to identify a Beck ideology so much as a set of attitudes, sometimes contradictory ones. He channels anger against Wall Street but defends the bonuses for AIG executives. He devoted a segment to debunking a conspiracy theory about FEMA "concentration camps" but has warned that the AmeriCorps program "indoctrinates your child into community service...
...heart of Schmidt's proposal was using the TV business as a model. A large amount of television content is free and supported by advertising. Other content is part of basic cable, and there is some income in being part of that distribution channel. Finally, pay TV creates a wall that the consumer cannot get over unless he is willing to shell out for premium content like movies. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...first quarter has been marked by almost no "earnings warnings." Companies that think they will miss either their own forecasts or those floating around on Wall St. traditionally tell the world that results will be worse than expected so investors can abandon their holdings a week or two earlier than they would if the company waited to put out results on its normal schedule. It is a perverse practice which is probably due to concerns by the SEC that a public corporation should not sit on really bad news any longer than possible. There have been very few warnings this...
...center of the media spotlight, purchasing Bear Sterns’ assets last March after the investment bank’s collapse. JPMorgan also accepted $25 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program last October. Second-year MBA student Mahshid Pirzadeh said students were looking forward to hearing what Wall Street firms are doing right. “It will be interesting to gain his perspective on future changes in financial markets,” Pirzadeh said. “He will be more serious than some [speakers] in the past, but that’s a function of the economy...
Sources: Christian Science Monitor; Wall Street Journal; AP; BBC; Reuters; New York Times...