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The push for a female libido pill reveals misunderstandings about female sexuality. Plus: Jorge Ramos' confrontation with the GOP front-runner; a guide to parsing stock market coverage; and an...
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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Stock Market Volatility Edition
When stock markets are volatile, the media careen from mass panic to euphoric relief to speaking in tongues. With the help of Fusion's Felix Salmon, we offer you another one of our Breaking News...
View ArticleMicroseconds Matter: Michael Lewis on High-Frequency Trading
A small group of Wall Street guys have figured out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become less free and more...
View ArticleCan the Economy Get Out of Its Perpetual Rut?
This week Money Talking revisits topics discussed in recent months: whether the economy can get out its perpetual rut and Bitcoin. After a severe winter that sent the economy into negative territory at...
View ArticleHow Important is the Alibaba IPO?
The Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba is expected to have one of the largest IPOs ever when it goes public Friday. This week on Money Talking, regular contributors Rana Foroohar of Time magazine and...
View ArticleChinese Company Alibaba Claims America's Largest IPO
Alibaba went public today and the Chinese e-commerce giant reportedly raised $21.8 billion—the biggest initial public offering ever in United States history. The company is valued at at least $168...
View ArticleBond King's Departure Shakes Up Market
In 1971, a young investment analyst named Bill Gross founded the Pacific Investment Management Company and changed the face of finance.The company, known as Pimco, now runs the largest bond fund in the...
View ArticleWall Street Worries About the Economy, Oil And Ebola
Global markets have been on a wild ride for the past two weeks as investors act on fears of a slowdown in global growth. The IMF recently lowered its global economic growth forecast as there are new...
View ArticleTechnical Glitch Halts Trading on New York Stock Exchange
Stocks have finished with sizable losses, on a day that saw the New York Stock Exchange shut down for half the day by a technical outage. The troubles didn't extend to the dozens of other exchanges...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Chinese Stock Market Crash
The Chinese stock market has dropped a third over the last month, prompting a major intervention from the Beijing government. Tom Easton, American Finance editor for The Economist magazine explains...
View ArticleBeijing Works to Stop a Stock Market Crash
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.What will Xi Jinping, China's ambitious president, do to save his country's stock market? It closed down 8.5 percent on Monday, the biggest one...
View ArticleChina Stuns Markets With Second Day of Currency Devaluation
In a bid to shore up domestic exporters, China has devalued its currency for a second day—the renminbi was down 2 percent yesterday, and 1.6 percent today.The sudden devaluation has caught investors...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson; Our Local Delegation on Iran; Panhandling in Times Square
Senator Chuck Schumer made waves when he announced his intention to vote against the Iran deal. The Forward's Nathan Guttman discusses how the rest of our local elected officials plan to vote. Plus:...
View ArticleThe Market Takes a Dive
Markets are in turmoil around the world after shares in China continued to slide. Charlie Herman, Business and Economics Editor for WNYC News, updates us on how the markets in New York are reacting to...
View ArticleChina's 'Black Monday' Shakes Global Markets
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Fears of a Chinese economic slowdown are haunting investors across the world.Stock markets in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and New York dipped...
View ArticleThe Strange Business of China's Stock Market
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.A steep downturn in the Chinese stock market has sent shock waves throughout the global economy. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial initially...
View ArticleU.S. Markets Wary But Resilient
U.S. markets bounced back Tuesday, after China's central bank cut interest rates in an effort to boost the economy.The move comes a day after fears of an economic slowdown there sent global markets...
View ArticleThe Country That's Making the Stock Market Crazy
For many economists and analysts, this week's turbulent stock market isn't surprising. They knew it was coming — and they knew where it would be coming from: China.But for the rest of us, it seemed...
View ArticleA New Direction in Economics
The powerful influence of Adam Smith has guided one of the central tenets of economics, that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools: The...
View ArticleAsian Markets Falter
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.China's stock market dropped below its limit of seven percent today, causing a chain reaction throughout Asia that has since spread to Europe and...
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How will China’s volatile stock market affect the U.S. economy?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: When China’s stock market plunged 10 percent last week, it had ripple effects around the world.In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average dropped...
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Can the Fed really fight global economic instability?
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference to announce raised interest rates on Dec. 16, 2015. Vikram Mansharamani suggests that recent events in the global economy are increasing the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Anxious as Tech Stocks Tumble
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Global oil prices are falling and Chinese leaders are scrambling as their economy buckles, but the stock market's recent tumble has also uncovered...
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With market bubbles, what goes up doesn’t always come down
Do market booms inevitably result in busts? History suggests otherwise, according to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: For 29...
View ArticleIs Another Recession Coming?
Click on the audio player above to hear this segment.Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has spent the last two days on Capitol Hill assuring Congress that the economy is under control, saying that...
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A political horse race where you can actually bet on the future president
Jockey Victor Espinoza, aboard American Pharoah (C), takes off for the start of the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes as well as the Triple Crown, in Elmont, New York on June 6, 2015. Photo by Lucas...
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You aren’t Warren Buffett. Stop trying to invest like him.
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and second wealthiest man in the United States, advises his children to invest in index funds rather than try to emulate what he did. Photo by...
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What Oprah and Warren Buffett can teach us about risk
Television personality Oprah Winfrey attends HBO’s New York premiere of the documentary “Beyonce – Life is But a Dream” in New York February 12, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew KellyWhat do Oprah Winfrey and...
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Column: How gold and art auctions can gauge stock market confidence
Just as a fall in Sotheby’s shares signals greed is receding, a spike in gold prices points to a rise in fear, writes columnist Vikram Mansharamani. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty...
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Why do so many investors believe trouble lies ahead?
In a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, researchers find that media coverage of adverse market outcomes is correlated with investor crash beliefs. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty...
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Column: The stock market doesn’t like the idea of a Trump presidency
the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on October 24, 2016. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersWhat do financial market participants think of the 2016 presidential election? It would be helpful to...
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Column: Markets were wary of a Trump presidency. What changed?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange the day after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 9, 2016. Were the pre-election and election night markets wrong to be so pessimistic about...
View ArticleThe Year That Challenged Elites
This was the year that defied predictions — the United Kingdom did indeed vote to leave the European Union, Donald Trump will be the country's 45th president and the stock market is soaring.With the...
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Column: How Chicken Little got Dow 20,000 so terribly wrong
A trader wears a hat referencing the proximity of Dow Jones Industrial Average to 20,000 as he works on floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Economist Terry Burnham predicted that the Dow Jones...
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Column: The stock market hates Trump’s economic policies
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 21, 2015. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersMost people see last week’s “Trump stock market rally” as an endorsement of the president’s...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Economy in the Trump Era
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 22,000 points for the first time. The surge in the markets is something the president often...
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After years of slow recovery, U.S. economy boasts solid gains
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: July was the second straight month of solid job gains in the United States.The Labor Department says employers added 209,000 jobs last month. That...
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Column: How can the stock market rally possibly continue?
Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersEditor’s note: Vikram Mansharamani, for years a professor at Yale and who now teaches at Harvard, is an investment consultant, public speaker on economic trends and...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash.One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash. One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleRemembering 'Black Monday'
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day drop in Wall Street history. On the 30th anniversary of the crash, Alexandra Starr, WNYC reporter, looks at the causes, and how that might...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading. These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading.These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View Article‘Hedge Fund King’ Steven Cohen Gets Back to Business
Before he was known for an insider trading scandal, Steven Cohen was known as the “hedge fund king,” bringing sky-high returns to clients at his super successful firm, SAC Capital Advisors — and...
View Article'The China Hustle' and the Coming Financial Crisis
Director Jed Rothstein discusses his new documentary, The China Hustle, along with Dan David, a Philadelphia-based investor who is featured in the film. The China Hustle is a Wall Street horror story...
View ArticleWill It Get Worse For Big Tech?
Investors call them the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — and in recent years, Wall Street has put a lot of faith in their continued success.But in the last few weeks, tech sector...
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