L.A. Times business columnist David Lazarus talks with Bill Radke about how credit-card companies are raising fees before new rules limiting interest-rate hikes go into effect, and what consumers can do about it.
GMAC, best known as the former financing arm of General Motors, is asking for more U.S. aid, on top of the $12.5 billion it has already received. Reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte talks the details with Stacey Vanek-Smith.
Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith, Moore and Company, talks with Bill Radke about the rise in U.S. home prices, and why the price of oil isn't even cheaper with demand down.
Greenpeace senior adviser Harvey Wasserman talks with Bill Radke about the Obama administration's stimulus grant that will go toward updating what the White House calls the smart electric grid.
A growing proportion of the unemployed in the U.S. is 40 and older. "Frontline" producer Arun Rath reports from a hair salon in New York, where clients talk about finding work when you're over 40.
New reports say Congress is about to propose new rules that would give the government more power to take apart financial giants that get into trouble. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.
Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, talks with Bill Radke about how a 9% decline in giving this year will cut into the work charities are doing.
Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at S&P Equity Research, talks with Bill Radke about how profitable earnings will be for the big oil companies, and whether U.S. debt will threaten the stock market rally.
