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Pay Limits: Much Needed or Too Much?
10/22/2009|Web Exclusive
We break down whether the pay czar's executive cuts are necessary financial regulation.
The Need for Fixed-Energy Costs
10/22/2009|Web Exclusive
Jeff Mayer president and CEO of MXenergy on the possibility of fixed-energy costs.
Author Joe Lamacchia argues you don't need to go to college to get a high-paying job.
Small Business Boom in New Orleans
08/25/2009|FOX Business
WSJ Small Business Editor Colleen DeBaise on the growth of small businesses in New Orleans.
The Wall Street Journal's Small Business Editor Colleen DeBaise on the success food trucks are having this summer.
Cash for Clunkers ends tonight--we break down if the incentive plan saved Detroit.
How the Stimulus is Helping New Orleans
08/24/2009|FOX Business
Mayor Ray Nagin on how the stimulus funds are reviving the community.
White House Health-Care Flip Flop?
08/18/2009|Happy Hour on FOX Business
Eric Bolling questions why the White House is now saying the public program is 'preferred.'
LATEST STORIES
Targeted Financial Reform More Likely Than Large-Scale Effort
| FOXBusiness| Markets
… The SEC’s failure to catch Bernie Madoff shows a level of incompetence unseen since FEMA’s handling of Hurricane Katrina . It is clear the SEC needs a bigger, more reliable funding stream so it can retain and recruit the top talent that …
Story|09/28/2009
| FOXBusiness| Markets
… the concrete foundation. In addition, her dreams of New Orleans being underwater persisted for 30 years before Hurricane Katrina made it happen. “My psychic gift is most powerful now that I use it to help others,” Frederick writes …
Story|09/23/2009
Hurricane Pork « Emac's Stock Watch
Emac's Stock Watch
… those enacted after 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina . The 2006 emergency spending bill for Hurricane Katrina victims and the war in Iraq were chock ..... the federal bills to clean up Hurricane Katrina , initially estimated at $82 …
Blog|08/31/2009
Cash For Clunkers « John Stossel
Other Stories
… for Clunkers remind me of the silly people who said that the rebuilding that would come after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina would “stimulate” the economy. What they forget is that the money for rebuilding —and the cash-for …
Blog|08/26/2009
Energy Companies Slash Insurance Levels: WSJ
| FOXBusiness| Markets
… need for insurance. The Journal said Transocean (RIG) moved almost completely to windstorm self-insurance after Hurricane Katrina , according to a spokesman. Rowan Companies (RDC) dropped windstorm coverage on some of its older, smaller rigs …
Story|08/24/2009
How Catholic Nuns Shaped America « Emac's Stock Watch
Emac's Stock Watch
… San Francisco Earthquake, the Influenza Epidemic, the Civil Rights Movement, even to this day in their work with Hurricane Katrina . For example, more than 600 sisters from 21 different communities nursed both Union and Confederate soldiers during …
Blog|07/07/2009
Shovel-ready Broadband Stimulus « Emac's Stock Watch
Emac's Stock Watch
… Copps said in his report. Broadband doesn't just help small businesses in all sorts of ways. Disasters like Hurricane Katrina show that vast swaths of the population have zero broadband communications that could save their lives-including …
Blog|06/03/2009
How Do We Prevent More Katrina-Style Flooding?
| FOXBusiness| Markets
… Erik Berte FOXBusiness The devastation in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina serves as a reminder of just how terrible the failure of a dam or levee can be. One research team at the University of South Carolina …
Story|02/16/2009
Businesses Fare Better in Senate Economic Package
Associated Press| Markets
… credits, including ones for wholesalers that buy liquor bottled in the U.S., companies that hire victims of Hurricane Katrina , businesses that supply child-care for workers and small businesses that become more accessible for people with …
Story|02/02/2009
Insurers' Natural Disaster Losses Rise by 50% in 2008
Associated Press| Markets
… were still well short of the $99 billion Munich Re recorded in 2005 -- when losses were swollen by claims from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The company said that year also saw a record overall economic loss of some $232 billion, adjusted …
Story|12/29/2008
