Oct 01 Militants Attack NATO Tankers; TARP Expiring; Ecuador's President Rescued Militants in southern Pakistan attacked more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing in the northwest. There were no reports of anyone killed or injured. Continue reading
Sep 30 Calif. Candidate Whitman, Former Housekeeper Trade More Accusations SAN FRANCISCO | Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, can't seem to shake charges that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant in her home as a housekeeper and nanny for nine years. In a second day… Continue reading
Sep 30 Even As a Small Stockholder, Why Don't I Have Any Power? Name: Frances Pearson Question: I am a small stockholder. My portfolio is all blue chip. Stockholders in every company are trying to control executive compensation- to no avail. (I vote for all stockholder proposals and do not give my proxy… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch AIG Looks to Repay Government, But Will Taxpayers Break Even? Insurance giant AIG and the U.S. Treasury unveiled a plan to speed up the repayment of more than $100 billion in federal bailout money. Ray Suarez talks to economic writers Roben Farzad of Bloomberg Businessweek and Louise Story of The… Continue watching
Sep 30 Pelosi: Middle Class' Future at Stake in Midterms, Democrats Proud of Record House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi spoke with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff Thursday about tax policy and the 2010 midterm elections. In this clip, Pelosi describes what she sees as the choice facing voters in the November elections. Her Democratic Party… Continue reading
Sep 30 Even As a Small Stockholder, Why Don't I Have Any Power? Name: Frances Pearson Question: I am a small stockholder. My portfolio is all blue chip. Stockholders in every company are trying to control executive compensation- to no avail. (I vote for all stockholder proposals and do not give my proxy… Continue reading
Sep 30 Thursday: AIG to Repay Government; Pakistan Blocks NATO Supply Route AIG said Thursday it has reached a deal to repay the Federal Reserve Bank of New York billions of dollars it received during the credit crisis. The plan announced Thursday could return a sizable profit to taxpayers. The… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Rural Transit Options Sought in Miss. Despite 'Welfare on Wheels' Criticism One Mississippi community is using stimulus money to bring mass transit to rural areas around the clock. Special correspondent Miles O'Brien of has our "Blueprint America" series report. Continue watching
Sep 29 Update | Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction By Paul Solman The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London. Several works we covered in our popular slide show sampler of the auction -- Lucian (grandson of Sigmund) Freud's portrait etching and Gary Hume's "Madonna" --… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch Former Labor Secretary Reich: Bush-Era Tax Cuts 'Hurt Quite a Lot' In the last of the series of conversations about whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for any, all or some Americans, Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, explains why he believes they should not… Continue watching