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Playing games with shareholder ownership

Janet Yellen, greenhouse gases, and shareholder ownership games.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about Fed chair Janet Yellen’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since the Fed raised interest rates; a setback for President Obama’s attempts to cut greenhouse gases; and Allan Sloan of the Washington Post joins us to talk about the Johnson Controls merger with Tyco, and how playing games with shareholder ownership can have beneficial tax results.

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