Diane Brady

Diane Brady appears in the following:

Summer Smackdown: Murdoch, Wall Street Banks and Tax Inversions

Friday, August 08, 2014

Fox's Rupert Murdoch gives up on his bid for Time Warner. Wall Street banks get dissed by regulators. And Walgreens decides, its not a Swiss company after all.

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US Economy, Revised

Thursday, June 26, 2014

GDP for the first quarter was revised sharply downward, due primarily to lower-than-expected healthcare spending. Diane Brady, Bloomberg Businessweek senior editor and the author of Fraternity (Spiegel & Grau, 2013) talks about the drop, and why markets aren't reacting more strongly to the news.

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My Turn: Timothy Geithner's Take on the Financial Crisis

Friday, May 09, 2014

The former Treasury Secretary's forthcoming book Stress Test details his account of account of just what happened during the financial crisis.

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As Job Growth Lags, CEO Pay Reaches New Heights

Friday, April 18, 2014

It's been seven years since the financial meltdown, and more than 10 million people are still out of work across the country. Money Talking asks why CEO pay continues to rise as the economy limps along. 

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Minimum Wage Is Going Up & Wall Street Bonuses Are Going Down

Friday, December 20, 2013

From a fast-food, minimum wage worker to a banker on Wall Street, a lot is changing in what people are getting paid. 

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September Stock Market Blues?

Friday, August 30, 2013

September is historically the worst month for the stock market. Add to that, a showdown over government spending, unrest in the Middle East and nerves about what the Federal Reserve is going to do, and things start to look dire. 

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Saturday Coffee Table: Money Talking Weekend Reading

Friday, June 07, 2013

Money Talking host Charlie Herman and regular contributor Joe Nocera of the New York Times and Diane Brady of Bloomberg Businessweek tell us what they're reading this weekend. 

 

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Money Talking: The Future of Amazon

Friday, June 07, 2013

This week in a courthouse in Manhattan, Apple is defending itself against federal charges that it colluded with the nation’s biggest publishers to raise the price of e-books.

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$6 Billion Money Laundering Charges Against Liberty Reserve

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Diane Brady, Bloomberg BusinessWeek senior editor and author of Fraternity (Spiegel & Grau, 2012) talks about the charges against Liberty Reserve, how the scheme allegedly worked, and what the fall out will be.

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Fraternity: 1968 at Holy Cross

Monday, July 30, 2012

In 1968, following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross recruited 20 African American high school students he felt had the potential to succeed if given an opportunity. Diane Brady tells the story of five of these men, among them were Clarence Thomas, Edward P. Jones, and Theodore Wells. In Fraternity, she looks at how their years at Holy Cross shaped them, and how they went on to shape our country.

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The Day After Tax Day

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

David Leonhardt, Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, and Diane BradyBloomberg BusinessWeek senior editor and author of Fraternity, talk about taxes -- the IRS, corporate rates, the Buffett rule and cheating. Plus the revolt from Citi shareholders about corporate compensation.

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Fraternity: College of the Holy Cross in 1968

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Diane Brady, Bloomberg Business Week Senior Editor and author of Fraternity, discusses the story of a fraternity of young African American men formed in 1968. 

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Monday Morning Politics

Monday, August 08, 2011

Bloomberg BusinessWeek senior editor Diane Brady, and Will Saletan, Slate’s national correspondent, and Jacob Goldstein from NPR's Planet Money, and WNYC's Ilya Marritz from the Stock Exchange floor, chat about the S&P downgrade, the market reaction today, and the political fallout.

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Monday Morning Roundup

Monday, November 15, 2010

BusinessWeek senior writer Diane Brady, and political reporter for Roll Call David Drucker, discuss the latest news, including the deficit reduction commission and trial of Charlie Rangel.

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GDP Pulse Check

Monday, August 02, 2010

Diane Brady, senior writer at Business Week, and WNYC's business and economics editor Charlie Herman talk about the latest gross domestic product numbers and what they mean for the economy.

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How We Got Here

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins hearings today, where the CEOs of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are expected to answer questions about how we arrived at the current economic situation. Business Week's Diane Brady reflects on what we've learned during the first hours of ...

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President Obama: Jobs Speech Coverage

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

President Obama is giving an address on jobs and the economy from the Brookings Institution today, scheduled for 11:20am. Hear the speech and get reaction from Diane Brady, senior editor at Business Week.

Post your reaction to the speech below!

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Recovery: Taking the Temperature

Friday, October 30, 2009

Yesterday saw some promising economic numbers, and a technical end to the recession, but the country is far from full recovery. Diane Brady of Business Week explains what the numbers do and do not tell us.

What do you think? When will you know that the recession is over ...

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Bonuses, Unemployment Benefits, and Clunker Cash

Monday, August 03, 2009

Believe it or not, there is non-health care economic news out there. Heidi Moore, freelance economics reporter (read her twitter stream here) and Diane Brady of Business Week preview the top economic stories of the week.

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Bonuses Are Back on Wall Street

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Daniel Gross of Newsweek and BusinessWeek's Diane Brady discuss the startling profits at Goldman Sachs, the return of big bonuses at AIG, and whether the business of banking has really changed at all.

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