Benzinga Podcast

Benzinga Radio had the chance to speak with Jim Rogers, legendary investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, about his thoughts on S&P's recent downgrade of U.S. debt, the slowdown we are seeing in the American economy, and opportunities for investing elsewhere. Here is what he had to say....

"The markets have called Bernanke's bluff," says Graham Summers, chief market strategist at Phoenix Capital Research. The problem, according to Summers, is that Bernanke and company don't have any cards left. Benzinga Radio got his thoughts on yesterday's 6.66% market plunge and the response we'll...

“The problem with gold,” says Dennis Gartman, author of the Gartman Letter, “is that it's been a wonderful trade.” In a May 2011 interview, Gartman recommended gold in Euro terms as the hottest trade for the summer ahead. But when a currency risk hedge climbs charts as rapidly as gold has since...

Brad Feld has a lot of good advice. He's made a living in innovation for more than twenty years, helming various startups and venture capital firms. His current firm, Foundry Group, boasts a portfolio comprised of names like Cheezburger Network, StockTwits, and Zynga. Luke and I had a chance to...

Dennis Gartman, author of The Gartman Letter, spoke to Benzinga Radio this week to discuss the possible dissolution of the European Union and the current disadvantages with buying gold among other things. Gartman reiterated his June statement that Germany would leave the Eurozone within two years...

Paul Meeks, Internet Analyst for Capstone Investments, is the only analyst on the block with a 'Sell' on LinkedIn. The price of LNKD has certainly been roaring since its IPO and it has yet to show signs of a slowdown. What's most interesting about LNKD, of course, is that it is nearly impossible to...

We spoke with Linda Yueh, Bloomberg TV's economics correspondent, fellow at St. Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford and associate of the Globalization program at the London School of Economics' Center for Economic Performance, on the changing nature of central bank policy in England and the...

"Federal government programs cannot become insolvent – period. The federal government will never run out of its own currency to finance its spending." For L. Randall Wray, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the debates that have raged in recent years over the "...

Benzinga Radio's Luke LaVanway and Matthew Boesler spoke with Bill Black, former litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and previous holder of other senior federal regulatory roles, and Edward Lewis, partner at Atlantic Equities, to discuss the proposed Bank of America settlement...

On this edition of Benzinga Attention I speak with James O'Shea, former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and author of the new book The Deal From Hell, to get an inside perspective on the involvement of Wall Street in the newspaper industry. The Deal From Hell tells the story of the LA...

James Marple, Senior Economist at TD Economics, discussed the personal income and outlays numbers due Monday morning on Benzinga Radio. Marple expects to see a downward move in inflation-adjusted personal income numbers, but points out that these numbers don't really give us a forward view of...

Earlier this week, I spoke with interfluidity author Steve Randy Waldman on Benzinga Radio about a recent Supreme Court reversal on Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, which Waldman summed up nicely in his article entitled, "A license to lie, backdated." The most interesting...

I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson on his decision to run for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential election. We talked about some of Governor Johnson's key platforms, such as his plans for fixing the economy and making the country's...

I spoke with Jacob Kirkegaard, research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on the Eurocrisis and ways forward for Greece (and for investors!) leading up to the next Eurogroup meeting on July 11. Kirkegaard warned investors to prepare for instability on the short term no...

Benzinga Radio's Matthew Boesler and I spoke with Vincent Truglia, managing director at Granite Springs Asset Management, regarding the unfolding Eurozone situation and possible US exposure. According to Truglia, the most immediate concern for the US is an agreement on the debt ceiling issue: “You...