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Scott Jagow

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  • Sep 14, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. A few things to kick off the week:…

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  • Sep 12, 2009

    Defining moments

    My weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. This week — the lessons of defining moments. Plus, I talk my friend Allan Sloan at Fortune…

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  • The pick of Ellen Degeneres as the next American Idol judge is being overshadowed today by the news that big record companies are suing her TV show…

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  • Sep 12, 2009

    Break ’em up?

    One of the issues I'll be talking about on the podcast today is whether the big banks need to be dismantled and reorganized. As a supplement to…

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  • I'll give the Treasury Secretary credit. He put himself out there last night. Mr. Geithner held a town hall meeting and took questions from…

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  • Sep 11, 2009

    Morning Reading

    You couldn't make this stuff up. Neighbors say an executive from Wells Fargo moved into a $12 million Malibu Beach home after the bank foreclosed…

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  • I missed this when it came out a few days ago, but I thought it was worth mentioning. IBM's annual commuter pain index has some interesting data…

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  • A film festival later this month in New York City has made The Great Recession its theme for this year. The entrants are a collection of short…

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  • The chasm between US imports and exports grew by a 16% in July to $32 billion, according to the Commerce Department. While that sounds like a bad…

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  • Today, the Census Bureau came out with its annual report on incomes, poverty and health insurance. I'll spare you the depression of reading…

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