GM execs blames shorts for negative stories
Robert Lutz, a General Motors executive and one of the most outspoken auto industry executives in the past 25 years, said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” today that he believes that some analysts with short...
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Highbrow Revelry on Jim Cramer's attraction
There is a blog called Highbrow Revelry written by two unnamed men that I find entertaining. Recently, they analyzed why CNBC’s Jim Cramer is so attractive to the general population. Highbrow Revelry writes, “Thursday...
Are biz sources being silenced?
Bill Fleckenstein, who runs a hedge fund in Seattle and writes a column for MSN Money, believes that some hedge fund managers are no longer willing to talk on the record to business journalists...
CNBC to begin prime-time series later this month
CNBC’s first original prime-time series, “American Made,” which focuses on U.S. business leaders, will debut at 8 p.m. eastern time Monday, April 17, the network announced Thursday. Hosted by Internet entrepreneur Ingrid Vanderveldt, the...
Following Cramer's stock picks
USA Today financial markets reporter Matt Krantz said he recently asked the producers of Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money” show for a list of Cramer’s stock picks so he could review their performance. Krantz writes,...
Friedman: CNBC playing a dangerous game
MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman laments what is happening on CNBC, particularly the stock portfolio contest that is being launched. Friedman argues that the stock contest takes away from the business cable network’s serious...
Economics coverage should be like March Madness
Ray Unger, who writes a business column for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisc., wishes that the people talking about the economy in the media had a scorecard to determine when they were right...
Cramer=Stock tips for suckers
Scott Collins, who writes the TV industry blog “Channel Island” for the Los Angeles Times, has unearthed a study by some Northwestern University students who say that “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer’s stock picks...
Thoughts from New York
As mentioned earlier, I took a group of students in my “Business Reporting” class to New York during Spring Break last week and met with people from the business journalism world. Here are some...
Herb Greenberg and shorts
Don Bauder writes in the San Diego Reader about MarketWatch.com columnist Herb Greenberg and his use of shorts as sources in the wake of the SEC subpoenas against Greenberg and a couple of other...
