good thursday morning. it will be interesting to talk to you about presidential politics in light of all of the negotiations on capitol hill. let me show you what the front pages of another tabloid spoke like. here is new york post. inside, the head mine looks like this firebrand might give d.c. hell and signals possible presidential run. the highlights that day that day point out. a sense of what his speech was light yesterday. a columnist in the daily news writes about it. in it, he writes we want to talk to you what you think about that, what a third party, if that s the route he goes, will do in terms of president obama and the republicans. jonathan allen is on the phone with us with politico lead story. democrats fall behind obama in compromise with gop. a day of a lot of debate and discussion and dealmaking on capitol hill. to give people a scorecard of what to watch today. such a big score card. obviously the tax bill, the movement, the degree to which yo
well, here we go. it appears there seems to be less turbulence for the coporate jet industry. when the economy took a nose dive during the financial crisis, corporate america pulled back on flying the skies aboard company planes. now, hopes are high the recession won t repeat, and the private jet business will soar. after months of headwinds, the corporate jet business is on a better flight pattern. we ve seen no longer a drop in flight hours. no longer the cancellation of the airplane orders the companies had. so having seen that leveling off is alot better is encouraging for us. we caught up to mike nichols, bp of operations education and economics for the national business avaition association. surrounded by plush jets ready to be fired up, nichols describes how the private aviation industry follows the ups and downs of the economy. one of the biggest downers was when executives from the big three automakers took their private jets and landed on capital hill asking for a
market indexes are back in the green for 2010, although barely. and you can bet today s jobs report will be key in determining whether we stay at those levels in the green angie or not. today could get interesting. you know i was off a few days here and traders are telling me you missed nothing . the market really has been sticking to that flat line. but that could mean there s a lot of pent up market action to come. and of course it have a lot to do that jobs number coming out later today. yeah, big day for stocks for sure angie. and the commodity markets have been going crazy too. especially the green markets. wheat is spiking up to two year highs. in fact, some traders are calling it a freight train. so much for the care free days of college. students at a top tier school are very tuned into what s happening with today s unemployment number. we stopped by northwestern university where students plan to hit the books and look for jobs this fall. on the northwestern universi
there s a presumption there that the fed is an independent agency, and it is up to a point. but we are a creature of the congress. susie: a congressional commission grills the former fed chairman, but alan greenspan says the financial crisis wasn t the fed s fault. tom: he s not the only one defending his role in the crisis. goldman sachs is telling its side of the story too. you re watching nightly business report for wednesday, april 7. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. alan greenspan said today of course we made mistakes . tom, the former chairman of the federal reserve was testifying on capitol hill about the financial crisis. tom: susie, he appeared before the financial crisis inquiry commission. and while greenspan acc
there s a presumption there that the fed is an independent agency, and it is up to a point. but we are a creature of the congress. susie: a congressional commission grills the former fed chairman, but alan greenspan says the financial crisis wasn t the fed s fault. tom: he s not the only one defending his role in the crisis. goldman sachs is telling its side of the story too. you re watching nightly business report for wednesday, april 7. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. alan greenspan said today of course we made mistakes . tom, the former chairman of the federal reserve was testifying on capitol hill about the financial crisis. tom: susie, he appeared before the financial crisis inquiry commission. and while greenspan acc