Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer dead at 58

  • September 9, 2024
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flash close video FEMA’s ‘Waffle House Index’ meant to ‘help communities’ the restaurant serves: CEO Walt Ehmer Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer says managers are ‘making calls on the ground’ as to whether or not it’s safe enough to operate during a hurricane. Waffle House CEO and president Walt Ehmer has died at the age […]

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Why Trump’s Child Care Policy Incoherence Matters

  • September 9, 2024
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By now, most of us who pay attention to politics have grown accustomed to tuning out the word-salad responses that former President Donald Trump frequently offers when asked a specific, policy-oriented question. But even by Trump’s standards, the answer he gave on Thursday when asked to explain how he’d propose to lower child care costs […]

Google faces another DOJ antitrust lawsuit over alleged ad-tech monopoly

  • September 9, 2024
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close video Dan Niles on Google losing antitrust lawsuit: Big is bad in this political climate and people will continue to go after any big companies Niles Investment Management’s Dan Niles unpacks the tech outlook on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Google is set to face its second antitrust trial since September 2023 against the Department of […]

How Inflation Breaks Our Brains

  • September 9, 2024
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When Russian peasants set fire to hundreds of buildings in Moscowin 1648, the acute cause was a sharp rise in the price of salt. When they rioted again12 years later, it was to protest a government policy that made copper money equal in value to coins made from silvera policy that naturally caused widespread price […]

Boeing strikes tentative labor deal with union representing over 32K workers

  • September 9, 2024
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close video New Boeing CEO comes from a good culture: Ron Epstein Ron Epstein, senior aerospace analyst at Bank of America, weighs in on the current state of the aerospace giant Boeing as the company names their new CEO. Boeing announced Sunday it reached a tentative agreement with the union representing about 33,000 workers in […]

Trump reveals his plan for Elon Musk if he wins the election

  • September 9, 2024
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close video Kevin OLeary warns Brazil amid Musk tussle: Be careful on the eggshells youre walking on Shark Tank investor Kevin OLeary weighs in on Tesla founder Elon Musks battle with Brazil and comments on U.S. markets. Former President Trump said Thursday that he endorsed billionaire Elon Musk's plan for a government efficiency commission and […]

US economy added 142,000 jobs in August, below economists’ expectations

  • September 9, 2024
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close video Fed should not be taking any big victory laps: Jason Trennert Strategas Chairman and CEO Jason Trennert discusses the common man CPI, real wages, the jobs data revisions and Harris tax hike plan. U.S. job growth picked up in August but missed economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate was little changed. The Labor […]

The Government’s Permitting Regime Is Choking the Economy

  • September 9, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris thinks U.S. Steel should not have the right to sell its business to Japan’s Nippon Steel. Previously, some Republican senators thought they too should have the ability to kill the deal between private companies. And it doesn’t stop there. During the pandemic, airlines had to get the government’s permission to hand […]

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The War in Ukraine Is Already OverRussia Just Doesn’t Know it Yet

  • September 9, 2024
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Wars end long before armistices are signed. A war’s end, after all, is a matter of will, of spiritand popular will is only haltingly, grudgingly reflected in the political machinery of peace talks. Though it may seem astonishingly premature to say so, my impression after returning from the Russian front is that the war in […]