Do You Think Elizabeth Warren Will Bring Change to Wall Street? President Obama is set to announce today that Elizabeth Warren will join the administration in a special advisory role to help form the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency she first proposed back... Read More
Poll Gives Republicans Edge Ahead of US Midterm Elections A new opinion poll shows opposition Republicans with a clear advantage heading into November’s mid-term U.S. legislative elections. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was released Tuesday, which marks the traditional... Read More
Unemployment rate rises to 9.6%, first increase in four months as economy struggles Americans received an unwanted Labor Day weekend present as the unemployment rate increased to 9.6%, the government reported Friday. The small uptick shows the economy is still struggling to fully... Read More
Rare Party Conference in N. Korea Raises Succession Questions A big meeting of North Korea’s only political party could herald the beginning of the succession to a third generation of the Kim family in the reclusive Communist state. Tokyo-Beijing Forum held to boost ties,... Read More
Bernanke Signals Fed Is Ready to Prop Up Economy JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Friday that the central bank was determined to prevent the economy from slipping into a cycle of falling prices, even as he emphasized that he believed growth... Read More
U.S. Stocks Rebound From Two-Week Loss on Merger Speculation U.S. stocks rose on speculation takeovers will continue to accelerate and after two straight weekly losses left the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index trading at its cheapest compared with earnings prospects in six weeks. Oil... Read More
In today’s news updates we cover links about Gulf pollution, unemployment and the stock market. Most BP Oil Still Pollutes the Gulf Two new analyses report that huge plumes of oil generated by the BP spill continue to roam deep within the Gulf of Mexico and appear disturbingly... Read More
Gerald O’Driscoll, Jr., Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and former Vice President at the Federal Reserve of Dallas, joined us last year for a McCuistion TV program: What Is the True State of the Economy? He and our other guests addressed the Fed’s role in the current economic... Read More
China Tops Japan as World’s No. 2 Economy China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy last quarter, capping the nation’s three- decade rise from Communist isolation to emerging superpower. Japan’s nominal gross domestic product for the second quarter totaled... Read More
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Iran Nuclear Plant Plans a Start Date Russia’s state atomic corporation, which is building the plant, said engineers will begin loading the Bushehr reactor with fuel. However, it could be six months before the reactor is fully operational. Russia has been... Read More
This Sunday, August 15th, at 12 noon on KERA, Channel 13, critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC TV personality, Charles Gasparino, joins McCuistion. In Part Two of the conversation he illuminates his controversial best seller: The Sellout. Charles Gasparino discusses... Read More
North Korea fires artillery into waters near border with South Korea More than 100 rounds were fired in an incident that is expected to escalate tensions between the two countries. It comes a day after the North seized a South Korean fishing boat. Will Colombia’s Santos slay... Read More
Dr. Ron Anderson, President/CEO of Parkland Hospital System in Dallas, and Dr. John Goodman, President/CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, recently debated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Dr. Anderson opened his comments by mentioning the McCuistion Program,... Read More
Join us this Sunday, August 8th at 12 noon on KERA, Channel 13 for McCuistion TV’s episode, Charles Gasparino’s The Sellout: 30 Years That Led Up to the Financial Crisis. Joining host Dennis McCuistion is Charles Gasparino. Gasparino is a critically acclaimed investigative... Read More
President Obama Heads to Michigan to Hail Auto Industry Recovery President Barack Obama heads to Michigan today to tout the revival of the auto industry after his administration controversially bailed out General Motors and Chrysler last year using tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. Obama... Read More
Join us this Sunday, August 1st at 12 noon on KERA, Channel 13 for McCuistion TV’s episode, Bill George on Character and Leadership. Bill George sits on the board for Goldman Sachs, is former Chairman & CEO of Medtronic’s and a professor of management practice at Harvard... Read More
New home sales rebound 24% NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — New home sales rebounded in June from the record low hit the previous month but remained sluggish. New home sales increased 23.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 330,000 last month, up from an downwardly revised 267,000... Read More
Oil spill work on hold as Bonnie approaches With a tropical storm approaching, hundreds of workers and more than a dozen vessels will begin moving from the Deepwater Horizon blowout site Friday, stopping work on the long-awaited final “kill” of the well for more than a... Read More
In addition to the intrinsic benefits that come from serving in a nonprofit organization, favorable tax treatment is among the most significant advantages for nonprofit organizations. However, tax forms like the 990 can be tricky to navigate through. In Part Two of a two-part... Read More
Political British Prime Minister to Meet with Obama Washington (CNN) — Prime Minister David Cameron makes his first White House visit as Britain’s leader Tuesday. There will be a number of difficult issues on the agenda, ranging from Afghanistan to the early release... Read More
