| Time (Eastern US) | Comment | Author |
Sat Jun 7th 2008
4:28 PM | Topic: Bob: We've got to get going on nuclear power in a big way | |
Sat Jun 7th 2008
5:08 PM | Topic: Bob: Taxes - where do Obama and McCain stand? Can we believe McCain is really for cutting taxes? | |
Sat Jun 7th 2008
5:12 PM | Topic: Bob: Every time they simplify taxes, the taxes get much more complicated | |
Sun Jun 8th 2008
6:02 PM | Topic: I wonder if Bob knows that burning natural gas in cars gives off CO2? | |
Sun Jun 22nd 2008
10:52 PM | Topic: The biggest crisis facing America is how we solve our energy problem | |
Sat Jun 28th 2008
4:14 PM | Topic: The politicians are playing a game of diversion to blame "speculators" for oil prices rather than their actions | |
Sun Jun 29th 2008
5:11 PM | Topic: U.S. Economy is not growing fast enough to absorb new workers entering the workforce. | |
Sat Jul 5th 2008
4:14 PM | Topic: Bob takes another vacation from his 2 day/week job...
Guest host Bill Flannigan thinks guns are for hunting deer, and equates gun owners with people who rob liquor stores in DC
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Sat Jul 5th 2008
4:29 PM | Conversation: The rest of the country doesn't care about New York's baseball teams. | |
Sat Jul 5th 2008
4:36 PM | Topic: Bill asserts again that "The purpose of guns is to shoot people", which completely misses the points of owning guns. | |
Sun Jul 6th 2008
4:51 PM | Topic: Why are Americans shying away from gas efficient cars? You and other callers prove that you are not going to make the adjustment. | |
Sun Jul 6th 2008
5:05 PM | Topic: Let's see: People want air conditioning, heat in winter, haul around children, the additional cost of a hybrid more than offsets the savings, people have the money to buy gas and this isn't a dictatorship (yet)... and not everyone lives in New York City (Bill) and has access to public transportation, taxis and limousine services to take them anywhere they want to go, Bill. | |
Sat Jul 12th 2008
4:29 PM | Topic: The Delta Airlines letter, sent to frequent flyers and signed by 12 CEO's of major airlines, says oil speculators now purchase more than 60% of the oil (on paper). The letter says that these speculators could be raising the price by 30-60%. | |
Sat Jul 12th 2008
4:32 PM | Conversation: The last thing a speculator wants to do is to take physical delivery of a commodity. Speculators buy no oil. They earn money by helping others manage risk. The people selling the airlines futures contracts are also speculators. You can't outlaw only one side of the futures business... and it's a global business - you make the rules too restrictive in the United states, the futures market will just shift away to Dubai. | |
Sun Jul 13th 2008
6:30 AM | Comment: Did Chuck Schumer cause the failure of IndyMac? | |
Sun Jul 13th 2008
4:20 PM | Topic: Ginnie Mae differs from Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac in that it is fully backed by the government. | |
Sun Jul 13th 2008
4:34 PM | Conversation: Since Bob has been telling people to invest in Ginnue Mae bonds for most of the last 20 years, he has a lot of credibility riding on that - but does that actually mean that the pools of mortgages are insulated from defaults and/or renegotiation of lower rates? Or did they have tighter enforcement of the lending requirements? | |
Sun Jul 13th 2008
5:33 PM | Conversation: Looking over GNMA's web site, they seem to confirm what Bob is saying. They guarantee complete repayment of principle and interest. However, "ginnie mae" securities can still lose principal since if mortgages in the pool are repaid early (because interest rates go down and people refinance) then if the buyer of the Ginnie Mae paid a premium for an above current interest rate, they just get back the principal and lose the premium - similar to a callable bond. I'm thinking that if a mortgage defaults, the same thing applies - you'll get back the principal in full immediately, but not the interest for the remainder of the term of the mortgage. | |
Sun Jul 13th 2008
11:56 PM | Comment: great guy very smart | |
Sat Jul 19th 2008
10:11 PM | Conversation: The collapse of Indymac and FDIC Insurance | |
Sun Jul 20th 2008
4:10 PM | Topic: Bob is now in his 23rd year of helping people reside "in the land of critical mass". Questions about a 403B. | |
Sat Jul 26th 2008
4:49 PM | Topic: "All of my money is in GNMA mortgage securities that you said in your newsletter to buy. Should I be worried?" | |
Sat Jul 26th 2008
4:54 PM | Quote: "In your time frame (1 to 3 years) it is a near certainty that the market will see an all time record high" | |
Sat Jul 26th 2008
5:24 PM | Quote: Bob made another curious comment today regarding the GNMA caller. "Because the GNMAs are guaranteed for repayment of principle and interest with the full faith and credit of the US Treasury, lack of diversity in a portfolio is not an issue." I'm thinking more than a few financial advisors would disagree with that. | |
Sat Aug 2nd 2008
5:37 PM | Topic: The problems with building new oil refineries | |
Sat Aug 2nd 2008
7:46 PM | Comment: The hazards of "specific stock risk". | |
Sun Aug 3rd 2008
5:08 PM | Conversation: One of the hazards of specific stock risk is that you won't buy mutual funds from his sponsors. | |
Sat Aug 9th 2008
6:36 PM | Topic: Are these plans that offer FDIC protection over $100k safe? | |
Sat Aug 23rd 2008
4:36 PM | Topic: Bill Flannigan is talking about energy policy. [Bob Brinker is vacationing again in the Land of critical mass] | |
Sun Aug 24th 2008
5:54 PM | Topic: Real Estate is a buyer's market - how should a buyer use that to their advantage? | |
Sun Aug 24th 2008
6:10 PM | Topic: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - will they survive? If not, what happens to the mortgage business? | |
Mon Aug 25th 2008
3:44 AM | Conversation: I think the "big picture" question that nobody has asked yet - how/why did we let the government get involved in the mortgage business to begin with? | |
Sun Aug 31st 2008
4:37 PM | Topic: Hurricane Gustav and the price of gas | |
Sun Aug 31st 2008
6:21 PM | Comment: Obama "Seminar Caller" starts by greeting "Bob"... when corrected, he continued on with "I've listened to you for years".. (To the guest host)... and goes down an Anti-McCain list of talking points having nothing to do with the show | |
Sun Aug 31st 2008
6:48 PM | Topic: Senior Caller is at the age that he is required to make distributions from his untaxed retirement account, and is now paying taxes. He asks Bill what to do. | |
Sun Aug 31st 2008
6:49 PM | Comment: My answer: Go out in your front yard, kneel down, kiss the ground and thank God you were born in the country that let you become wealthy. Pay the taxes on your deferred income and shut the hell up. | |
Sat Sep 6th 2008
4:40 PM | Topic: The federal reserve system | |
Sat Sep 6th 2008
4:54 PM | Topic: Achieve some global diversification by investing in index funds
and it's Federal Reserve Conspiracy day! - call Bob and educate him about the Truth about who really runs the world! | |
Sun Sep 7th 2008
4:29 PM | Topic: Talking about the problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | |
Sun Sep 7th 2008
5:30 PM | Topic: Retired government worker from Michigan asks if he should choose the option to pass along lifetime health benefits to his 24 year old daughter. Bob goes ballistic on the caller (and Michigan) at the insanity of that arrangement and the burden on future taxpayers and the caller chuckles and thinks "sucks to not be me". | |
Sun Sep 7th 2008
5:33 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: It will suck to be him when the State is so broke it can't pay for anything. Michigan is already a basket case. | |
Sun Sep 7th 2008
5:55 PM | Topic: Pscyho caller calls in to tell Bob about his 2 year track record of predictions and calls Bob a "shill". Caller fails to get his web site URL mentioned. | |
Sun Sep 7th 2008
6:43 PM | Topic: Interview with the author of "Steve's Brain", about Steve Jobs the man behind the success of Apple | |
Sat Sep 13th 2008
4:08 PM | Topic: Bob Brinker is working today!
More things to talk about than time to talk about them (Hurricane Ike and the effect on oil production, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac...)
"Free market" Bob Brinker encourages government to "go after" price gouging and encourages his listeners to "report them" | |
Sat Sep 13th 2008
4:23 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: If there are a line of people willing to pay the price, it is not "gouging" | |
Sun Sep 14th 2008
6:14 PM | Topic: Bob Interviews a member of the Federal Reserve Board about interest rates and assorted topics
Interview with a USA Today financial reporter about the Fannie Mae/Freedie Mac bailout | |
Sun Sep 14th 2008
6:15 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: I missed the Federal Reserve interview - I wonder if he asked the guest "Who owns the Federal Reserve", to try to put to rest some of the conspiracy theories - not that any amount of facts would change any minds. | |
Sun Sep 14th 2008
6:17 PM | Topic: Merrill Lynch in merger talks with Bank of America, is AIG next? | |
Sun Sep 21st 2008
12:48 AM | Topic: The truth of the last week starts to come out. Money Market funds (which are not insured by SIPC or anyone else) but marketed as "really safe" - had exposure to a Lehman failure - investments the funds should have never made. That's why the Feds felt they had to step in. | |
Sun Sep 21st 2008
12:49 AM | Conversation: Bob is advocating bringing back the uptick short-selling rule, showing his complete ignorance of how electronic trading systems work. Following decimalization and specalists no longer manually controlling stock prices, subsecond price changes, distributed exections across multiple trading platforms, global trading of single stock futures, etc... the uptick rule makes no sense.
Bob's guest is absolutely correct, but Bob isn't going to accept the facts.
"Naked short selling" is a really bad idea as it is a positive feedback loop, that just feeds the downward panic. Short Selling itself is an essential protection against irrational price runups. Banning all short selling would be a really bad idea. | |
Sun Sep 21st 2008
1:00 AM | Conversation: One of Ronald Reagan's favorite sayings is "Subsidize something, you create more of something. Tax it, and you get less". I'm seriously worried that we are subsidzing failure. This new "fund" being created may cause banks and others to specifically target arranging their investments with the goal of dumping worthless assets into the fund. | |
Wed Sep 24th 2008
5:37 PM | Conversation: Can someone recommend a station that reliably streams the refeed of Bob Brinker's Moneytalk, or that streams a rerun of the show over the internet any time after 4 p.m. Pacific Time, on both Saturday and Sunday? | |
Wed Sep 24th 2008
9:42 PM | Conversation: Bob Brinker sells his program "on demand" on his web site, which is probably why few stations rebroadcast it. | |
Sun Sep 28th 2008
4:09 PM | Topic: Talking about the congressional deal to rescue the investment banking crisis. | |
Sun Sep 28th 2008
4:09 PM | Quote: "the primary target of this program is the banking system" | |
Sat Oct 4th 2008
4:21 PM | Topic: Live show - Bob Brinker is in the house (literally)
Going through all of the details of the Emergency $850 billion Sweetener 'n sour Pork bill
Lots of important questions and answers about the bailout and the financial markets | |
Sun Oct 5th 2008
6:38 PM | Topic: HYPO (German Real Estate Company) continues to unfold | |
Sat Oct 11th 2008
4:10 PM | Topic: Bob has a cold.
Bob stipulates that he completely missed this downturn.
Bob reviews the actions of Hank Paulson... Bob has concerns about the Federal taking preferred equity ownership in banks, causing the collapse of the common stock.
Q: Is my GNMA "safe"? | |
Sun Oct 12th 2008
5:01 PM | Conversation: Bob Brinker also sells a newsletter called Bob Brinker's MarketTimer which is a relatively expensive subscription service where he outlines various portfolios that you can model on your own. | |
Sun Oct 12th 2008
5:14 PM | Topic: Brinker says: The trouble with Tax Asset Relief Program is a conflict of interest. To please the banks, you must overpay for the assets you're buying to the banks which is bad for the taxpayer. But to pay a low value for these is bad for the banks' balance sheets. Solve this by injecting capital directly by obtaining preferred stocks and warrants in banks instead of buying the assets directly. | |
Sun Oct 12th 2008
5:27 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: What's the end game for the preferred stock? Is it voting stock? Is it convertible? Is it cumulative? What's the exit strategy? Does the Fed get a role in setting lending policy for the bank? What rights do the common stockholders have after the Fed jumps of front of them in the event of liquidation?
What stops this "bailout" from just feeding the banks getting more and more irresponsible? Subsidize failure and you get more of it(tm) | |
Sat Oct 18th 2008
4:56 PM | Topic: Caller asks if the 700 billion rescue plan involves printing money? | |
Sun Oct 19th 2008
5:07 PM | Topic: Looking at voter reaction of the "bailout" | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:25 PM | Topic: Caller asks if this flood of Fed money is going to cause inflation (something Bob has warned regularly over 20 years), and Bob reacts very negatively to the caller. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:26 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 26th 5:41 PM | Topic: Bob calls the next caller a liar (Caller is concerned that the government will take over 401(k) accounts to "protect" them).
Caller was concerned about the testimony in Congress, Bob's rejoinder was that callers concerns were not warranted because of a later interview with Neil Cavuto on a cable TV program nobody watches (and isn't under oath). | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:28 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 26th 5:29 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: This exact thing just happened in Argentina - it is NOT hypothetical (as Bob just acknowledged) | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:43 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 26th 5:45 PM | Topic: Next caller passes along the bogus internet email saying the govt could spend the $85 billion and just give everyone $400,000 each to solve the mortgage crisis. Caller "didn't do the math" and Bob straightens him out. ($85 billion / 200 million is $400 each, not $400,000) | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:52 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 26th 5:55 PM | Topic: Next caller challenges Bob on his assertion that the 'short sale uptick rule' is a major factor in company failures - quoting an article from The Economist (which indicates the caller is a really knowledgeable person in the investment industry).
Bob accuses the caller of being the operator of a hedge fund operator.
Bob is having a really bad day. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
5:58 PM | Topic: Next caller is concerned about countries going under and that rippling out to other things. Bob reassures him that only Iceland and Argentina are in trouble. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
6:01 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: I guess that the Land of Critical Mass doesn't have newspaper service. Brazil, Pakistan and most countries in Asia are in serious trouble as foreign investment capital is fleeing their countries. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
6:34 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: The IMF is working on Sunday. They just agreed to loan $16 billion to Ukaraine IF ukraine agrees to a series of measures like cutting social spending. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
6:45 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 26th 6:58 PM | Topic: Bob's guest blows off the Community Redevelopment Act as not being a factor in the failure of Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae. "All it said was banks had to loan to people where they have branches, not make loans to people who can't pay them back." Guest needs to spend an hour touring Detroit.
He also blames the repeal of Glass/Steagell on Republicans, despite it being pushed by Robert Rubin, the Senate approved it 90-8 and it was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Can we say "Democratic Party partisan"? | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
6:53 PM | Topic: Next caller points out that the $2 trillion in US subprime is a very small portion of the global credit market, which the guest blows off, and Bob immediately corrects the guest (whose premise is that "Wall Street" is to blame). The global credit market based on LIBOR is over $300 trillion, so the subprime problem is less than 1% of the world's credit market. Caller pushes then to ask what the REAL cause is. | |
Sun Oct 26th 2008
6:53 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: Bob's show has a lot of REALLY smart callers. | |
Sat Nov 8th 2008
4:27 PM | Topic: Bob is explaining the Treasury / LIBOR (TED) spread and what it means about what is going on | |
Sat Nov 22nd 2008
6:45 PM | Topic: Guest and Bob discussing the state of the Automobile industry | |
Sun Nov 23rd 2008
5:39 PM | Topic: Bob agrees with the unions and Democrats that corporate CEOs are overpaid | |
Sat Dec 6th 2008
4:10 PM
Updated:Sat Dec 06th 4:23 PM | Topic: Bob embraces Obama's vision for a New New Deal | |
Sat Dec 13th 2008
4:23 PM | Topic: Woman caller is a victim of the Ponzi scheme, and can't believe it has been going on for 20 years... | |
Sun Jan 4th 2009
5:50 PM | Topic: Caller wanats to know if getting dividends is a zero sum game | |
Sun Jan 18th 2009
5:03 AM | Comment: Now that Bob has critical mass and living in his gated community, he's turned into quite the Keynsian socialist. He now bristles at any suggestion that the government is out of control spending money it doesn't have. His favorite rationale lately is government should "give" money to people who have "a higher propensity for oonsumption". | |
Sat Jan 24th 2009
4:13 PM | Topic: What will it take to get banks to lend again? | |
Sat Feb 28th 2009
5:40 PM
Updated:Sun Mar 01st 11:28 PM | Topic: Reviewing your bond holdings given the market conditions | |
Sun Mar 8th 2009
4:08 PM | Topic: The upcoming "stress test" on the big banks. What is it, why are they doing it, and what does it mean? | |
Sat Mar 14th 2009
4:11 PM
Updated:Sat Mar 14th 4:16 PM | Topic: Live show from the Starship MoneyTalk: Exploring the demographics of the unemployment problem. The under educated always are the first to lose their jobs.
OPEC trying to cut back oil production again to get oil prices back up | |
Sat Mar 21st 2009
9:35 PM | Topic: When asked about the risk of monetizing the debt, Bob still asserts that it doesn't matter because the U.S. is less worse off than Europe | |
Sun Mar 22nd 2009
6:53 PM | Topic: Should you invest in non-dollar denominated bonds? | |
Sat Mar 28th 2009
11:50 PM | Topic: Bob is promoting Natural Gas powered cars today.
[Note to Bob: Burning natural gas gives off the dreaded CO2 gas that is going to destroy the planet.] | |
Sat Apr 4th 2009
4:29 PM | Comment: Bob continues to live in the stock market of the 1970s and the contentious listener calls continue | |
Sun Apr 5th 2009
4:56 PM | Topic: Bob says that the congresspeople who serve on financial bodies do not know anything about finance. | |
Mon Apr 6th 2009
4:29 AM | === Response ===
Conversation: Maybe Bob should run for Congress and straighten them out! | |
Sun Apr 12th 2009
6:54 PM | Topic: Is inflation in the future? Author of the book "When Giants Fall" [Bob isn't buying the premise] | |
Sat Apr 25th 2009
5:45 PM
Updated:Sat Apr 25th 6:37 PM | Topic: Bob is defending his position again about the Short Sale Uptick rule. People who were watching things at the time saw no indication of mass short selling... The SEC has a rule that automtically prevents short selling if the open interest gets too high, and you can't short sell a stock below $5. The issue was that smart money knew companies like Lehman and AIG were sitting on 100s of Billions in losses. That's the reason the companies fall apart. Many of these stocks had a temporary prohibition on ALL short sales, and it did nothing to slow the fall of the stocks. Bob is full of crap. | |
Sun Apr 26th 2009
4:55 PM | Topic: Bob Brinker ringing the "OMG, it's a pandemic" alarm bell (see blog post). | |
Sun May 24th 2009
6:19 PM
Updated:Sun May 24th 6:45 PM | Topic: Guest host: Bill Flannigan
Guest from Coldwell Banker is talking about the $8,000 tax credit for new home purchasers.
Guest from Coldwell Banker dismissed call from 37 year veteran in the Real Estate business with the cliche that "All Real Estate is local". Coldwell banker is a national franchise. The caller was talking about FHA's lending policies, which are not local. This was after Bill had hung up on the caller so he couldn't respond. Coldwell is just hyping Obama's plan.
Now guest after next call goes back and says "and the previous caller might have said this...". I'm really starting to get angry. This is the crap that is killing radio. | |
Sun May 24th 2009
6:33 PM
Updated:Sun May 24th 6:34 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: *sigh* The Real Estate people never learn and the government just enables them. His company is pushing the idea that the 8k can be used as a "bridge loan" at closing... essentially reducing any down payment requirement by $8k... which may mean the buyer even walks away with cash - having paid nothing down. We haven't learned a damn thing yet. Then again, this is perfect for ACORN. | |
Sun May 24th 2009
6:24 PM
Updated:Sun May 24th 6:29 PM | Conversation: I just had an inspiration for a new financial product. People in financial services love to bet on anything. Here is the idea I hereby donate to the public domain: Radio ratings futures. Be able to place bets on whether a radio program's ratings will go up or down in the future. Look to Intrade as the basic model of how to place your bet make your investment. | |
Sat May 30th 2009
4:38 PM | Topic: Bob taking more time off... Bill Flannigan again.... | |
Sat Jun 6th 2009
5:51 PM
Updated:Sat Jun 06th 5:52 PM | Topic: Caller says "A bank" is offering to pay him 2x the amount that the stock market goes up over the next 2 years, and wonders if it is a good idea. Bob: "That sounds just like a Bernie Madoff Deal.".... Caller: "But it's from a big bank!" [I don't think Bob talked him out of it]
Bob is pretty sure taxes are going up a lot in the future | |
Sat Jun 6th 2009
6:09 PM | Topic: Author of "Predictably irrational" | |
Sat Jun 6th 2009
10:27 PM | Quote: "Our Energy Policy is bankrupt" | |
Sat Jun 13th 2009
5:49 PM
Updated:Sat Jun 13th 5:57 PM | Topic: Caller wants to know if she should be concerned that she owns a lot of State of California Bonds. Bob announces that he has a rule that you should not have more than 1% of your bonds in any one investment. [How convenient to announce a "rule" retroactively - Bob has previously said there is nothing to worry about investing in State bonds, since there has never been a default]
Capitalist Brinker "plays the child card", rationalizing going to a government payer system to protect the children of the irresponsbile parent. Bob is getting extremely defensive, and rightly so. | |
Sat Jun 20th 2009
5:08 PM
Updated:Sat Jun 20th 5:24 PM | Comment: Bob explains to us illiterate people what is going on in Iran
Caller asks if she needs a lawyer to handle paying off her mortgage. Bob asks her questions about the profit and loss of selling the house - when she said nothing about selling her house - which confused the caller. Bob said that paying off a mortgage is "not a real estate transaction" and hence she doesn't need a lawyer. If the out-of-state lender fails to file a release of mortgage at the courthouse and later claims the mortgage wasn't paid off - she is going to have issues. Bob is not a lawyer - he should not be answering legal questions.
Bob gets question about why Wells-Fargo wanted Wachovia. Bob seems to be unaware that Wachovia owns the forme AG Edwards stock brokerage business and related mutual funds. | |
Sat Jun 20th 2009
6:01 PM | Comment: Caller has been sold $20k in Freddie Mac Preferred stock, and Bob obssesses over being called Bill (Half the time Bob is not there and Bill Flannigan is the guest)... rather than just correcting the caller, he makes fun of him and never does get around to telling the caller he may have bought a high risk, possibly worthless security from his broker. | |
Sun Jun 21st 2009
4:14 PM | Topic: Bob is back to the short sale uptick rule... sigh | |
Sat Jun 27th 2009
5:23 PM
Updated:Sat Jun 27th 5:59 PM | Topic: Gold - is it useful as a hedge against possible inflation?
Bob [who has told people for years that there is no risk to buying California State bonds] downplays the notion of a bankruptcy
I Bonds vs TIFs - which are the better way to go? | |
Sun Jun 28th 2009
5:25 PM | Topic: California, Proposition 13 and the State's budget woes | |
Sun Jul 5th 2009
10:26 PM | Topic: Guest host: Bill "Don't call me Bob" Flannigan...
Understanding reverse mortgages in today's market | |
Sun Jul 12th 2009
7:57 PM | Topic: Bob defends the FDR era market interventions as being the reason things are working out better this time around [oh?] | |
Sat Jul 18th 2009
6:02 PM | Comment: WABC in New York has dropped Bob Brinker's MoneyTalk. | |
Sat Jul 18th 2009
6:10 PM
Updated:Sat Jul 18th 10:40 PM | Topic: Companies you own: AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, CitiGroup
Bob is confronting his guest from London about his opinions about the credit crisis (why did we save AIG but let Lehman fail?)... guest is backpedaling and really has no answer. | |
Sat Jul 18th 2009
10:41 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: AIG was stopped from failing because so many government employees have insurance annuities at AIG, AIG owed 10s of Billions to Goldman Sachs (Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner's former employe) and secondarily to create a pretext for Federal control and regulation of insurance, which is and always has been done State by State | |
Sun Jul 19th 2009
4:14 PM | Topic: The California Budget crisis and how is it not uncommon because of the penisons of government retirees. | |
Sun Jul 19th 2009
6:41 PM | Topic: Bob is a big supporter of Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Rserve and if it were up to Bob, Ben would be reappointed to the job today - not Larry Summers or Paul Voulker | |
Sat Jul 25th 2009
4:09 PM | Topic: The stock market is up 11% year to date - I told you so! | |
Sun Jul 26th 2009
5:51 PM | Topic: U.S Tresuary bond's or CD's which is safer or a better return in the long run | |
Sat Aug 1st 2009
5:23 PM | Topic: a caller is discussing Natural Gas prices | |
Sat Aug 8th 2009
6:11 PM
Updated:Sun Aug 09th 1:18 PM | Comment: Bob is talking down ETF's... Bob "doesn't want to talk about" how mutual load funds can only be bought at NAV at end of the day, and how that can and is being manipulated.
I'm positive I learned about SPDRs from Bob. This is really bizarre - I guess his opinion depends on who he likes this week. | |
Sun Aug 9th 2009
4:37 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimenez from KGO is filling in for Bob today. | |
Sun Aug 9th 2009
7:16 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: Really odd - since Bob was on yesterday. | |
Sat Aug 15th 2009
5:04 PM
Updated:Sat Aug 15th 5:11 PM | Topic: Bob badgers caller from California (the "IOU" State, no longer the Golden State) before she even says anything, then suggests she put her retirement savings in Bank CDs. Bob is more interested in wishing he could be at sprint car races tonight, which have a $150,000 prize. | |
Sat Aug 15th 2009
5:48 PM
Updated:Sat Aug 15th 6:03 PM | Topic: Bob thinks the people in England like the National Health Service - they have "made their peace with it" and thinks Conservatives in American should stop arguing about the Constitution crap | |
Sat Aug 15th 2009
6:09 PM
Updated:Sat Aug 15th 6:09 PM | Topic: Bob's guest this hour wrote a book about how Detroit lost its grip on the U.S. Car Market. Bob laughs at the demise of the Big Three, and then realizes that his behavior was inappropriate. | |
Sun Aug 16th 2009
4:11 PM
Updated:Sun Aug 16th 4:28 PM | Topic: Government fiscal policy and how it affects the value of the dollar in the foreign exchange markets
Bob mocks the first caller who asks about the connections between the Federal Reserve and the New World Order | |
Sun Aug 16th 2009
6:18 PM | Topic: China and its economy - what should we know and can we learn from their experiences? | |
Sun Sep 13th 2009
4:17 PM | Topic: Bank collapses and the panic they caused | |
Sat Sep 19th 2009
6:22 PM | Topic: What do you do if you can't trust the companies that issue credit ratings on other companies? | |
Sat Sep 26th 2009
6:53 PM | Topic: Bob is taking the weekend off... Guest host is talking about TARP, Geithner and the financial crisis | |
Sat Oct 3rd 2009
4:35 PM | Topic: Stock market is having a great year - aren't you glad you listened to Bob's advice? | |
Sun Oct 4th 2009
4:39 PM | Topic: citizens recovering from the bad money times | |
Sun Oct 18th 2009
6:45 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 18th 6:47 PM | Topic: Bob's back on the natural gas thing - his guest suggests that "all gas stations already have natural gas available" and that it would be simple to make it available.
First, it's not true that all gas stations would have natural gas for heating... and the pipelines going down the street into each building are nowhere near the capacity to handle the amount of natural gas it would take to power a refueling station...
Simple solutions aren't.
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Sat Oct 24th 2009
5:36 PM
Updated:Sun Oct 25th 4:01 PM | Topic: Obama's orders to limit executive pay | |
Sun Nov 1st 2009
5:37 PM | Topic: the budget deficits in the country of Greece | |
Sun Nov 1st 2009
6:43 PM | Topic: A trucker concerned about lending and his business, | |
Sat Nov 7th 2009
4:20 PM
Updated:Sat Nov 07th 5:16 PM | Topic: Guest host: Lynn Jimenez from KGO - Bob's new permanent replacement guest host
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Sun Nov 8th 2009
5:50 PM | Topic: Housing, Mortgage and Foreclosures - oh my! | |
Sun Nov 8th 2009
6:54 PM | Topic: Guest from Morningstar talking about mutual funds | |
Sat Nov 21st 2009
11:29 PM | Topic: Bob is "in" this weekend... Isn't it time to let the free market deal with the problems and an end to government intervention? | |
Sat Nov 28th 2009
4:46 PM | Topic: Regular Guest host Lynn Jimenez
Caller is moving, and wants to know if he should sell his house when he takes a new job an hour and a half away, or hold onto the house and hope it comes back | |
Sun Nov 29th 2009
8:52 PM | Topic: How long will a foreclosure or a bankruptcy stay on your credit record? | |
Sat Dec 12th 2009
6:08 PM | Topic: GNMAs - still a good idea, but since there is no proft in selling them, you probably wouldn't know about them. | |
Sat Dec 19th 2009
6:45 PM | Topic: The changes in tax laws - what you need to know | |
Sun Dec 27th 2009
4:11 PM | Topic: Bob is badmouthing ETF's again for having a brokerage commission | |
Sat Jan 2nd 2010
5:39 PM | Topic: Trying to keep track of all the pending tax changes | |
Sun Jan 3rd 2010
4:10 PM | Topic: Regular Guest host Lynn Jimenez
Looking to the future of the growing economy | |
Sun Jan 3rd 2010
6:12 PM | Topic: How banks are coping with the new credit card rules | |
Sat Jan 9th 2010
4:08 PM | Topic: The Market is starting off 2010 extremely well.
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Sun Jan 10th 2010
6:24 PM | Topic: Why we don't learn from disasters | |
Sun Jan 17th 2010
4:59 PM | Topic: Regular guest host Lynn Himenez | |
Sat Jan 23rd 2010
4:16 PM | Topic: The restoration of glass-steagall...and the controversy on the reappointment of Bernanke | |
Sat Feb 6th 2010
4:16 PM | Topic: The bad condition on the Greek Economy and the Spanish Economy. | |
Sun Feb 7th 2010
6:50 PM | Topic: The caller has California Bonds and why she has them. | |
Sun Feb 14th 2010
4:16 PM | Topic: Lynn is in today as Bob celebrates Presidents Day weekend
Bernanke and what the Fed is doing
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway class B shares are added to the S&P 500 index | |
Sun Mar 7th 2010
4:09 PM | Topic: The week ahead - Federal Deficit hits $1.6 trillion, and both political parties are ignoring it | |
Sat Mar 13th 2010
4:42 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimenez substituting for Bob Brinker - who is taking off Daylight Saving Time Day. | |
Sun Mar 28th 2010
4:11 PM | Topic: Looking at the details of Obamacare and what it means to you | |
Sun May 2nd 2010
4:13 PM | Topic: The Greek sovereign debt crisis - will it spread? | |
Sat May 15th 2010
6:25 PM | Topic: It's Lynn Jimenez's week to do the show (or maybe Larry Kudlow's show hasn't started yet) | |
Sat May 15th 2010
7:12 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: Oops, it's not Lynn - it's a different woman - didn't catch her name. | |
Sun May 23rd 2010
4:15 PM | Topic: I bought my first house from him | |
Sun May 23rd 2010
4:30 PM | Topic: Recognizing we're in a correction in the market, but predicts it will be small and short-termed, followed by a bull market. | |
Sun May 23rd 2010
5:25 PM | Topic: Market volatility & manipulation suspicion. | |
Sun Jun 20th 2010
6:14 PM | Topic: Taxes are going up next year - what to do about it | |
Sun Jun 20th 2010
6:23 PM | Topic: The role that home equity loans played in the market collapse | |
Sun Jul 11th 2010
4:45 PM | Topic: Bob tells Frank not to call with political anti-Obama questions | |
Sun Jul 18th 2010
4:28 PM
Updated:Sun Jul 18th 4:32 PM | Comment: Now that the show is only one day/week, is the price of MoneyTalk on Demand cut in half? | |
Sun Jul 18th 2010
4:45 PM | Topic: The $550 million fine for Goldman Sachs is "nothing" | |
Sun Aug 8th 2010
6:08 PM | Topic: Former vice chairman of the fed to give NWO report | |
Sun Aug 15th 2010
4:08 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimemez from KGO is filling in for Bob talking about jobs. | |
Sun Aug 15th 2010
4:33 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: God, he can't even work one day a week. Way past time to retire. | |
Sun Aug 15th 2010
6:53 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimenez from KGO is filling in taking listener calls on financial issues. | |
Sun Sep 5th 2010
5:50 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimemez from KGO is filling in for Bob talking about jobs and credit checks | |
Sun Sep 12th 2010
4:09 PM | Topic: Congress is due back in session this week. Look for tax wars. | |
Sun Sep 26th 2010
6:40 PM | Topic: Bob is inteviewing an author of a book relating smoking to economics | |
Sun Oct 24th 2010
5:38 PM | Topic: United States has 2nd highest corporate tax rate of the industrialized world | |
Sun Oct 24th 2010
6:36 PM | Topic: The uptick rule conspiracy again | |
Sun Nov 28th 2010
7:38 PM | Topic: Bob is taking his well-dserved vacation from his 3 hour a week show. Guest is a financial planner who works for people to help them "take care of" their parent's money as they get older. | |
Sun Dec 5th 2010
4:26 PM | Topic: Capital gains - should I take them now? | |
Sun Dec 12th 2010
5:17 PM | Topic: Caller has $620k in an IRA and wonders if it is a bad idea to put the money into an annuity | |
Sun Jan 2nd 2011
9:44 PM | Topic: Bob is taking a well deserved holiday from his 3 hour a week show - his permanent guest host is also on vacation. The guest guest host is advocating a national sales tax. | |
Sun Jan 30th 2011
4:39 PM | Topic: Caller wants to know what happens if the US dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency | |
Sun Jan 30th 2011
6:28 PM | Topic: The situation with Egypt and what it might mean for energy prices | |
Sun Feb 13th 2011
4:38 PM | Topic: Bob is taking another well deserved vacation from his 3 hour a week show, taking a break between Martin Luther King's birthday and President's day | |
Sun Feb 13th 2011
4:40 PM | Quote: "Wall Street loves to feed at the trough of tax payers" Lynn Jimenez | |
Sun Feb 13th 2011
4:42 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: Oh really? Are we all Socialists now? | |
Sun Mar 6th 2011
6:09 PM | Topic: Lynn Jimenez is sitting for Bob Brinker as Bob takes another break from his 3 hr/week show as he prepares for March madness | |
Sun Mar 20th 2011
5:09 PM | Topic: Bob is in the house - breaking news of the AT&T purchase of T-Mobile for $39 billion | |
Sun Jul 17th 2011
5:53 PM | Topic: It was Bob's idea to lower payroll taxes, but he is modest and would never point out it was his idea | |