Topics: College Tuiton
Throwback Thursday
May 26, 2016
Columbia College Associate Professor of Creative writing and Stocks & Jocks friend Eric Charles May joins the Chief for a Throwback Thursday. The two discuss the changing real estate market and how it makes it difficult for aspiring home owners. Eric and the Chief recall their parents’ first homes in the city and what it cost them. The throwbacks continue as the two discuss how their parents grew up in the shadow of the great depression, making spending habits and wealth discretion much different from today. At the top of the second hour the Chief picks at Eric’s higher education expertise to discuss how liberal arts colleges are worried about the decreasing enrollment rates ahead. Next they speculate if Apple actually has an electric car in the works that will change the electronic car market and turn their own earnings around.
Dark Horses
May 6, 2016
Handicapping insider ‘Spider’ kicks off the show with his 2016 Kentucky Derby preview. Kathy Dervin joins us in-studio ahead of the jobs number to discuss the stagnant U.S. economy along with Puerto Rican bonds. Hal Snarr, Author and Professor of Economics at Westminster College, shares his thoughts on how government regulations are handcuffing growth. Finally, John Neal of PTI Securities & Futures talks markets.
Eminent Domain Game
May 2, 2016
Chris Manns of PTI Securities & Futures is in-studio talking Puerto Rico’s imminent default, before welcoming Keith Mussman, President of the Kankakee (Illinois) County Farm Bureau, to shed light on a potential railroad project affecting Illinois property owners downstate. Jim Burns, lean hog trader at the CME, goes over Michael Bloomberg’s college commencement speech and more. Then John Neal and David Andalman of PTI Securities & Futures tell us how to trade these markets.
Draft Day
April 28, 2016
Lou Michels joins the Chief to follow up yesterday’s conversation about Japanese markets before breaking down ESPN’s dismissal of Curt Schilling. Robert Raiola, taxman to the stars, joins in for his insight on the NFL Draft and a discussion of athlete residency and how it plays out during tax season.
Budget Impasse in Springfield
April 20, 2016
The Chief and Maddie Field start off the show discussing the current state of politics and what the Obama administration has and has not managed to achieve. Bob Cerone of Cognos HR joins in to discuss how student debt cripples college graduates and has adverse effects on the market. Illinois State Senator Matt Murphy calls in at the top of the second hour to provide an insiders perspective on the budget impasse. He explains what Governor Rauner wants, what he’s given up on, and what the democratic majority will give him. David Andalman takes out the show with an analysis of the market.