A trip to the ball park, hockey rink or whatever sports venue suits your fancy has always been a great way to escape from it all for a few hours. But sports marketers are starting to worry that fans and big corporate sponsors are thinking twice about spending at the ball game during tough economic times.
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A bailout of the U.S. financial system has passed Congress and was signed into law by President Bush on Friday. Now what? The Economist’s U.S. Economics Editor Greg Ip tells The Takeaway what the plan is designed to do and how it will function, and explains the best-case and worst-case scenarios.
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Guest: Alex Ritson, BBC business correspondent
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Former Wall Street trader Nassim Taleb coined the term "black swan" to refer to unpredictable events that shape history and human experience far more than we are willing to admit. His bestselling book "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" challenges conventional methods of economic forecasting, and has become a sort of travel guide to the current economic meltdown.
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Guest: Todd Zwillich, Capitol News Connection
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With Wall Street in disarray, New York Times Columnist David Leonhardt compares 2008's economic climate to America circa the Great Depression and discusses the loss of trust in the banks.
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What was wrong with the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 proposed by Bush administration and its congressional allies? It could have been marketing, starting with the use of the word "bailout."
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Waiting is what we are doing today — waiting for the folks on Capitol Hill to come to some kind of agreement over the bailout bill. or is it a "rescue plan?" Whatever you choose to call it — the Senate has chosen to vote on the bill tonight. But the bill has had a little sugarcoating, including a new provision added that increases the limit on federally insured bank deposits to $250,000 from $100,000. Edmund Andrews, reporter for the New York Times, joins us from Washington.
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Guest: Gretchen Morgenson, the New York Times
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Guest: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent
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Guest: David Herszenhorn, New York Times reporter
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Guest: U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who voted for the bailout bill
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Guest: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times reporter
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Guest: Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer, Department of Economics, Harvard University
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Yesterday, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points after a federal bailout package failed in the House of Representatives. As market futures waver this next morning and Congress returns to the drawing board, the Federal Reserve and Treasury have some options for the economy.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came into office two years ago (after tenure as CEO of Goldman Sachs) with an ambitious plan to remake the U.S. economy and tackle thorny problems like privatizing Social Security. Instead, he's become the Bush administration's point man and chief spokesman on a series of historic government interventions in the economy — including yesterday's failed $700 billion dollar bailout proposal for Wall Street.
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Today, facing the sound defeat of his Wall Street bailout plan and a historic single-day drop in the markets, President Bush and his advisors will have to go back to the drawing board. In the confusion and flying accusations just five weeks from elections, the House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion plan 228 to 205, with over 100 House Republicans voting against Bush's personal plea.
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GUEST: Gus Faucher, Director of Macroeconomics at Moody’s Economy.com, and frequent contributor to the Dismal Scientist
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Guests: Todd Zwillich, Capitol News Connection and Floyd Norris, The New York Times
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Guest: Todd Zwillich, Capitol News Connection
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The $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill heads to the House for a vote today. We talk to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., about the bailout and how it developed over the weekend.
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The Takeaway talks with two reporters and an economist on the details of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout bill.
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Wondering if the proposed Wall Street bailout is a good idea? You're in good company. On Tuesday, more than 100 academic economists sent a letter sent to Congress protesting the bailout. Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University economist, talks with The Takeaway about the resistance to government intervention.
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President Bush made the final speech of his presidency to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday amidst the chaos of a financial meltdown on Wall Street. Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times discusses President Bush's farewell.
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The credit crisis has hit big business hard, but the blow to consumer confidence will probably mean bad news for small businesses as well. The Takeaway speaks with Dan Gross about the impact of this week's financial free-fall on smaller businesses.
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President George W. Bush made the final speech of his presidential term to the United Nations General Assembly amidst the chaos of the financial meltdown on Wall Street.
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