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Obama to Fat Cat Bankers: Refinance or Else

December 14, 2009 – 9:40 am

President Obama says he’s going to have a “serious talk” with bankers today to pressure them to provide more credit. Why? Well, because if you’re upside down on your house today and want to take advantage of low rates, your bank is just as likely to say, “eh, no thanks, we’ll just keep making money.” We’ll discuss this and more on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Better Living Through Defaulting: Just Walk Away From Your Home

December 11, 2009 – 10:42 am

So let’s say you’re stuck in a house that the bank says is worth half a million, but the market says it’s worth only a quarter of that. What if it turned out you could walk away from it and rent not just another house, but a bigger house, for less money? What if four million of your friends figured this was a good idea, too? We’ll discuss this and more on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Why Does Everyone Hate This Jobs Idea?

December 10, 2009 – 11:01 am

So before jetting off to accept his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, President Obama went on a sales run for his jobs package idea — and he came back empty handed. Why do the left and the right both hate this idea for spending TARP funds? We’ll discuss this and more on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Obama’s TARP Audacity: Will This Fix Anything?

December 9, 2009 – 11:04 am

President Obama wants to expand TARP to cover stimulus spending, handing out cash to small businesses to offset the egregious economic policies he’s adopted (and in the case of health care, plans to adopt) damaging their ability to hire anyone. We’ll discuss his Brookings Institution speech on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Health Care Update: Prospects in the Senate

December 8, 2009 – 11:02 am

As the Senate considers a health care bill that amounts to the largest entitlement expansion in American history, we sit down today with health care and budget policy expert James Capretta to discuss the prospects in the Senate and the wide-ranging economic ramifications of the current legislation.

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It’s Time to Ask: Who Could Replace Ben Bernanke?

December 7, 2009 – 10:20 am

So it’s time we asked the question: if not Ben Bernanke, who could be the next Fed chairman? And what are we going to do about job creation, since the president seems more interested in holding pointless conferences to waste time talking about job creation? It’s our 100th episode — time flies!

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Job Numbers, Bernanke Holds, and News Media Realities

December 4, 2009 – 10:52 am

Tons of news in the market today as we unpack the surprisingly good job numbers, the Senate holds placed on Ben Bernanke’s renomination, and the massive Comcast-NBC deal and what it says about the new realities for mass media — all on the 99th edition of Coffee and Markets.

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What Will Make America Hire Again?

December 3, 2009 – 10:22 am

The President holds a jobs summit, but doesn’t invite the biggest actual producers of jobs — instead stacking the deck with people who believe there just hasn’t been enough government reallocation of taxpayer money. We’ll talk about the summit and the latest details of upheaval at General Motors in today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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How is Barack Obama Like Charlie Weis?

December 2, 2009 – 2:00 am

So he came in as a great recruiter, a great builder, a new innovator, already with the rings on his finger, the prizes around his neck, and he was going to make everything better — but then he started losing people, right and left, and the team he built crumbled. It’s time we started asking: is Barack Obama going to end up like Charlie Weis?

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Will America’s Economic Troubles Prevent Future Afghanistans?

December 1, 2009 – 9:57 am

What if a future President wants to go to war or ship more troops overseas to protect American interests, but can’t because China won’t let him? Could this actually happen? We’ll discuss Niall Ferguson’s latest and the dangerous foreign policy ramifications of America’s current path on the latest edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Bargain Hunting and Our New Economic Reality

November 30, 2009 – 10:24 am

So, how was Black Friday for you? For retailers, it was a time to go looking for small reasons for optimism, but the comparison to 2008 is essentially flat. How will the markets react, and what’s the deal with Dubai? We’ll discuss it all on the latest edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Dubai Causes a Black Friday for Global Markets

November 27, 2009 – 9:24 am

News from Dubai is rocking and rolling world markets today, as an $80 billion default could spawn a broad wave of activity and expose the tenuous status of the banking system. We’re talking global markets on the Black Friday edition of Coffee and Markets.

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