Financial 411

Financial 411: Wall Street Money and Nonprofits

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18 GMT

The Harlem Children’s Zone, and the promise and peril of being popular in the financial services industry. Guest: WNYC’s Beth Fertig. ....

Financial 411: Is Insider Trading Pervasive At Hedge Funds?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:24 GMT

Greg David of Crain’s New York Business is beginning to think so, in light of recent busts by the US Attorney’s office. ....

Financial 411: Reasons to Destroy a Cell Phone

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23 GMT

Prosecutors charge 14 more individuals in an alleged scheme involving insider trading via prepaid mobile phones. Guest: WNYC’s Ilya Marritz. ....

Financial 411: Plain Vanilla, Anyone?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:23 GMT

The reason banks want your money in a CD. Guest: Aaron Elstein of Crain’s New York Business. ....

Financial 411: It Takes A Judge

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05 GMT

Judge Frederic Block tries to cut through financial jargon in the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. Guest: WNYC’s Lisa Chow. ....

Financial 411: Why Do Some People Not Trust Banks After 75 Years of FDIC Guarantees?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46 GMT

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation tries to instill confidence in the banking system. Guest: Sandra Thompson, Director of the Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection at the FDIC. ....

Financial 411: A Bang-Bang Play in the Bronx

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:24 GMT

Assessing economic impact of the World Series, plus what to do about the glut of empty condos. Guest: Greg David of Crain’s New York Business. ....

Financial 411: Recession Over, Sort Of

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:31 GMT

What 3.5 percent economic growth really means. Guest: Simon Johnson, MIT Professor and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. ....

Financial 411: “Why Go Through the Brain Damage of That?”

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:07 GMT

A CEO decides to pull out of natural gas drilling in the New York City watershed. Guest: Jad Mouawad of The New York Times. ....

Financial 411: Out-of-Network, In The Spotlight

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13 GMT

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo forces changes to medical billing. Guest: WNYC's Fred Mogul ....

Financial 411: Challengers Welcome

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52 GMT

HealthSouth opens up its board of directors selection process. Guest: Joann Lublin of The Wall Street Journal. ....

Financial 411: Galleon, Sunk

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:03 GMT

What does the demise of the Galleon fund means for the hedge fund industry? Guest: Greg David, editorial director of Crain’s New York Business. ....

Financial 411: East Side Story

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:35 GMT

New York’s highest court hands a victory to tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in their suit against Tishman Speyer. Guest: WNYC’s Cindy Rodriguez. ....

Have The Banks Already Won?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:12 GMT

NPR’s Adam Davidson says lobbyists for the big financial institutions are already on board with the administration’s plans for new financial regulation. ....

Financial 411: Udder Agony

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:13 GMT

Milk producers struggle as global demand craters. Guest: Andrew Novakovic director of Cornell University's Program on Dairy Markets and Policy. ....

Financial 411: Junk Shop

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55 GMT

Why high-risk, high-yield junk bonds are hot. Guest: Roben Farzad of BusinessWeek. ....

Financial 411: Off Life Support, Still Sick

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:45 GMT

Banks’ positive third-quarter earnings conceal problems in their commercial mortgage portfolios. Guest: Greg David, Crain’s New York Business. ....

Financial 411: The Incredible Shrinking New York Stock Exchange

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:19 GMT

Graham Bowley of The New York Times explains why companies are moving to obscure exchanges. ....

Financial 411: A Smarter Job Search?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:07 GMT

The State Department of Labor tries a new algorithm to connect the unemployed with jobs. Guest: WNYC’s Ilya Marritz. ....

Financial 411: Stearns Warning

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:07 GMT

Jury selection begins in the trial of two Bear Stearns managers whose 2007 hedge fund blowup presaged the mortgage disaster. Guests: Aaron Elstein of Crain’s New York Business and WNYC’s Lisa Cho....

Financial 411: The Costs of E-Verify

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:51 GMT

The government now requires most businesses with a government contract of more than $100,000 to use a Department of Homeland Security website to verify that new employees are legal workers, but the U....

Financial 411: Walking drives up land values…

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:33 GMT

Streets that are made for walking have tangible economic benefits. That's the conclusion of conferees at the tenth annual Walk 21 conference taking place in New York City. ....

Financial 411: Prepaid Debit Cards’ Hidden Fees

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:29 GMT

If you don’t have a checking account, maybe you’re using a prepaid debit card to buy stuff online, get cash from an ATM, or pay your bills. New York Times reporter Andrew Martin talks about the p....

Financial 411: The Cost of Being Gay

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:03 GMT

It costs more to be a gay couple than a married, heterosexual couple according to an analysis by two New York Times writers. Ron Lieber of the Times’s “Your Money” column explains why. ....

Financial 411: Charlotte’s Ebb?

listenerservices@wnyc.org — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:21 GMT

Ken Lewis leaves Bank of America, Governor Paterson says New York’s fiscal state is bad, but manageable. Guest: Greg David of Crain’s New York Business. ....