Apr 19 Monday: Flight Disruptions Continue; Court to Hear Campus Group's Appeal Stranded travelers sleep at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Monday, as main French airports remain closed. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images.) Lawmakers and aviation officials across Europe faced growing criticism Monday, as air travel across the continent… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch Fraud Charges Feed Financial Reform Debate With the SEC filing a civil charge against Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, accusing it of defrauding investors, Jeffrey Brown speaks with University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger and attorney John Singer about the fallout for the firm and… Continue watching
Apr 17 Ray Suarez: Life Under a Cloud LONDON | Another day. Another clear blue sky. And another cancelled flight because of what's lurking above that clear blue sky. I was just about to write this post, about the airport closings, the delays, the crammed ferry landings,… Continue reading
Apr 16 David Brooks on CIA Tapes, Goldman Sachs Charges and the Florida GOP By Hari Sreenivasan Columnist David Brooks -- one half of our regular Shields and Brooks analysis team -- stopped by The Rundown Friday for a conversation about the latest headlines, including the Security and Exchange Commission filing fraud charges against financial… Continue reading
Apr 16 Twitter Hopes to Turn Tweets Into Profit Twitter may be one of the world's fastest-growing social media tools, but the question of how the 140-character micro-blogging site could turn tweets into dollar signs has gone unanswered since its launch in 2006. Until now. The San Francisco-based company… Continue reading
Apr 16 Patchwork Nation: Land-Use Measure Could Create More Varied Florida By Dante Chinni The story of Florida over the past half-century has been a story of real estate. Booms and busts and disputes between developers and preservationists can be deep and lead to tensions within communities in the state. We wrote about the… Continue reading
Apr 16 SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Federal regulators charged Goldman Sachs with fraud Friday, accusing the Wall Street firm of failing to disclose conflicts of interest relating to mortgage investments it created and sold -- investments that were likely to fail. The Securities and… Continue reading
Apr 16 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Carolyn O'Hara On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book "Drive," about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL SOLMAN: Executive pay and Wall Street bonuses,... might not enhance,… Continue reading
Apr 16 A Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Business Desk Editor's note: On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book Drive, about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch News Wrap: Bank Regulators Defend Oversight of Failed WaMu In other news Friday, federal bank regulators came under fire in the Senate for their role in the Washington Mutual bank failure, and President Obama renewed his calls to rein in the derivatives market in the financial system. Continue watching