Of folks who dont provide Health Insurance, they need to make sure that they meet their responsibilities to their employers arent going to the emergency room, jacking up everybody elses costs. What we did yesterday was simply to make an adjustment in terms of their compliance because for many of these companies, just the process of complying yeah, they are midsized between 50 and 100 folks, it may take time even if they are operating in good faith, and we want to make sure the purpose of the law is not to punish them, its to make sure they are providing Health Insurance to their employees or that they are helping to bare the costs of their employees getting Health Insurance. And thats consistent actually with what we have done on the individual mandate. The vast majority of americans want Health Insurance. Many couldnt afford it, we provide them tax credits, but even with the tax credits in some cases they still cant afford it, and we have phaseins to make sure that nobody is unnecessa
The largest Communications Company in the world by revenue. It owns nbc universal, comcast cable, e entertainment television, the golf challenge, university pictures. It owns cable operations in 29 states local news and sports channel, internet and Cloud Computing services. Now the two plan to become one, merging the first and second kyle providers to control a big share of the american cable t. V. Market, and put the other pet r toes in the shade. If you are watching us on television, you are by definition a cable tv customer. And whether you get your service from comcast, time warner, or another company, this merger may have long term impact on a product you buy. What this massive merger will mean for their competitors, and the tens of millions of customers who buy able, internet, and other Communications Services is the inside story. The two are planning to join forces by the end of 24 year. Comcast would absorb time warner for some 45 billion worth of stock. I think it is incredibl
Discuss the stagnant obama economy and how obamacare is making it worse. This is the fifth anniversary of the day the president s signed his trilliondollar stimulus bill into law. The remarks he paid gave that day the president stated that the legislation marked the beginning of the end of the nations economic troubles. Five years later, however, the end of the nations economic strubles nowhere in sight. The headlines of the jobs report released friday say it all. The headline from the Associated Press said u. S. Economy may be struck in slow lane for long run. New york times headline, weakness continues as 113,000 jobs are added in january. From cbs news, another month of weak job growth raises slowdown fears. From the wall street journal, u. S. Adds 113,000 jobs in latest worrying sign on growth. From reuters, u. S. Employment fails to rebound strongly from winter chill. Madam president , before passage of the stimulus president ial advisor Christina Romer predicted the stimulus bill
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Higher or paying you juicy dividends or often both. But perhaps because of my four decades in the business, i sometimes leave way too much unsaid and take too much knowledge for granted. Knowledge you need to know to be the best investor you can be. So tonight, im taking time out to impart some of that knowledge in a special show about the way stocks really work and how they interrelate or dont with the companies they stand for and are supposed to represent. On mad money, we analyze companies, trying to figure out what makes them tick. What should we be watching for . What goals theyre supposed to meet . What are expectations supposed to be . But we dont trade these companies, we invest in their stocks. And you should never forget that the company and their stock are not the same thing. I know, sounds pretty obvious, the kind of thing that should go without saying, but people constantly make the mistake of equating a company with its stock. And its the kind of mistake that can absolute