With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. Because funny things happen to us all the time, but we have to be out on the look out for them come and she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts, but when you look back at them you think that was really funny. So thats a real gift. Thats a literary gift. The life and times of erma bombeck this weekend as a boo
We are very a journalist at a time when poland had no money at all and cnn are arrived by helicopter heat came by bus. We want to be coming by and stay until the end. That has always been our view of the story and we do it immediately and it is worth always doing the last interview and going the last kilometer. Nick myron magnet recounts the personal lives of americas founders in an examination of their homes. This is about an hour. Are we all adjusted . Well adjusted . Myron magnet, you have written a sumptuous physically and very rich in terms of its content and surprising. Let me start with the devils question. We have had the founders revival going for 20 years, big books on all the big guys, we are getting books on lesser known figures, why do we need another one . First of all it is beautiful as you say. You will see this 32 pages of very expensive color plates in it. It seemed to me that one of the things people hadnt really looked act as carefully as possible with the founders
Ornween the prince of p and legalizing marijuana, who better to have as a partner than tom keene . You are so twisted. [laughter] i dont know how to type. Im doing typing. I want to type like adam johnson. One of the most beautiful weakens of the summer. The first weather ever. You did typing this weekend . Just a little bit. Gin and tonic typing. You have to get your typing game on. My bowtie is set for radio. M a dayand mende day m a day. Zillow has agreed to buy trulia. They are the two most visited property sites in the u. S. I use them all the time. There was also a deal and discount retailing. Buy family will dollar. The deal has an enterprise value of 9. 2 billion. Carl icahn has a 9 stake in family dollar. Has agreed to settle claims that it manipulated benchmark Interest Rates. To u. S. Pay 370 million and british regulators. Nine Financial Firms have been fined a total of 6 billion. A new airline can sin that the public market. Virgin america filed for an ipo today. It has be
Money. Melissa amazon catching fire this morning after stock tanking after reporting bruted tall 126 million loss. We have wall street journal James Freeman and veronica dacafer and james frischling. Happy friday. We love friday. What do you think the amazon story . This is basically 20 years amazon has been saying to wall street, to investors, keep funding this melissa they have gotten away with it. Low margin business, well keep getting market share. If you told us in 90s they would say this in 2014 it would be kind of amazing but they get away with it because they are continually seizing a large part of what are very big markets. Melissa it worked for them. But if you look at the chart and look at today, feels like investors are impatient today. Chris, oneday thing and on monday theyre back in love or . Im not sure oneday thing but make couple days or week or two. Were heading into seasonally strongest year for shopping. Back to school, Holiday Shopping stays in. Melissa doesnt matt
Headlines. A roughandtumble week for stocks ending a on a quiet note. Better than expected u. S. Third quarter gdp data could knot offset worries about corporate earnings the dow eked out a gain of three points. Good year was one of the biggest losers with shares tumbling more than 10 . The tiremaker missed Third Quarter estimates driven by weakness in europe. One bright spot was expedia. Shares soared 15 . They posted strong Third Quarter earnings fueled by a sharp rise in hotel bookings. Now to our top story. Some people are calling it frankenstorm. Others call it a noreastercane combination hurricane, noreaster snowstorm or nightmare. If you live on the east coast you call it scary. Hurricane sandy is making its way up the eastern seaboard. It may hit critical refineries that process 3. 1 Million Barrels of oil per day. You know what that means. Gas prices could go right back up. Patrick dehaan from gasbuddy. Com joins me with more on this one. Looks like the east coast is in troubl