Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan on Charlie Rose

Last night, Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America was on Charlie Rose and the interview made me want to buy shares of Bank of America. Why? Well, the worst is over for Bank of America as far as legal issues. Of course, not entirely but for the most part, as they've paid out somewhere in the range of $30 billion. Plus, the economy in the United States is on the mend and housing has certainly bottomed out and is now growing. But it was just the way Moynihan talked about Bank of America and all that he's been

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Marc Andreessen on Facebook Three Years Ago

Here's someone who might know a thing or two about Facebook, Marc Andreessen, who sits on the board and just so happens to own roughly 6,607,131 shares in the company. I wonder if he sold any on the IPO? But he kicks off his Charlie Rose interview from three years ago talking about Facebook - starts at the 2:25 minute mark and is all about Facebook for about the first six minutes. Andreessen is of course the founder of Netscape and a financial backer of Skype, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. In other words, he's a genius and picking

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Amy Goodman on Occupy Wall Street

A discussion about Occupy Wall Street with journalist Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Why are they protesting? It is the collapse of globalization - turning into feudalism. Just look at the slave labor type of environment many workers live in. The race to the bottom. Prison labor in China. See full interview at

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Ray Dalio on Charlie Rose

Hedge fund guru Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates appeared on Charlie Rose lasted night. You can watch the full interview at Charlie Rose's website. DealBook has a nice run down of the interview:

Mr. Dalio defended Bridgewater’s culture, which emphasizes radical honesty and encourages employees to criticize each other, by saying that it was “exactly the opposite of a cult.” He said that the firm’s culture of institutionalized bickering actually made it more productive. “If people who are disagreeing can say, ‘Why do we disagree?’ and work through that conversation in an intelligent way to try to find

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Charlie Rose: Analysis of the Occupy Wall Street Protests

Nice run down and analysis of the Occupy Wall Street Protests with Paul Krugman of 'The New York Times,' Jared Bernstein of CNBC, protester Bill Buster & Marshall Ganz of the Kennedy School at Harvard University on Charlie Rose last night.

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Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose

Warren Buffett discusses his New York Times Op-Ed piece 'Stop Coddling the Super-Rich' which calls on Congress to increase income taxes on the Super-Rich like himself. You can tell that Buffett is frustrated, annoyed and perhaps genuinely angry about the governments inability to solve problems - instead they create them.

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Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Charlie Rose

What has Alan Greenspan learned recently, how important human reactions are in financial events? Wonder why? Some say that the lack of financial regulation during his term as Federal Reserve Chairman is what helped created the financial disaster of 2007-2008. Full video over at Charlie Rose.

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