Account, Hillary Clinton and her private jets. My question to you as this president ial Campaign Rolls around, which of the candidates is going to spend the most time in the barrel . Hillary clinton is going to spend a lot of time in there. There is tons of investigative stuff to do. The two other people i think have to worry right now are jeb bush, because i think he will emerge as a clear front runner when the fundraising figures come out and there is a lot of his life the National Media has never dug into, and rand paul. Rand paul is going to be out there attracting attention, and there is lots to look at. I absolutely agree with you. I will add one to the list. Chris christie if you go back and read the detailed account of the Vice President ial vet in 2012, theres a lot of stuff there. People have only scratched the surface of that material, various controversies. I think teams are out there mining that stuff, and the papers are waiting for it. Hes a big target. How many of invest
Also for the mothers day and singing rendition. [laughter] as they came across the stage in costume but this is a different type of evening but i have a great pleasure to introduce a phenomenal event a phenomenal woman and great friend a sociologists for gender research and i first got to know her when she wrote in article. Any guesses what the word is . The minutes of. It was about women in college taking a feminism studies class. And she brought such a sense of humor but also with the seriousness of the issue. I was looking for a partner to do the research and for my book lean in. She is a combination of someone who is deeply deeply fantastic academic who understands research and what makes research valid but incredible desire to make the world a better place for those who have the same economic opportunities. That is the passion that comes out in the book. She has been a great friend to be. So please treat me to welcome Marianne Cooper. [applause] so here we are here to talk about c
Income. The numbers are on the screen. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. Your best ideas for growing the middleclass. We want to hear from you. Joining us on the phone is Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post cap how is the little class to find . Of the Washington Post. How is the middleclass defined . Guest i think most of us think of that typical family or household. When we talk about Median Income or median wealth, that is what we mean. What is that right there in the middle. Host does that change based on where you live . Guest it does but when you think about it nationally ok, the Median Income is a little over 50,000 a year. And that is about what it was in 1989. When theyre thinking about the middleclass nationally, we think of a it really has not gotten better in terms of income in a quartercentury. Host talk about how the middleclass is doing not just with income, but other parts of their pocketbook. Are there costs for them . Guest it has been a really tough couple
Big shakeup at mcdonalds after announcing its ceo don thompson is leaving at the end of february to stop big time on the news up 4 . You know what i always say . Whenever a stock pops when the ceo is out wall street did not like that particular ceo. Orville rocky tenure for thompson. Heres what mcdonalds has done versus the dow since he took over in july of 2012. Lets bring in ed butowksi. Off the bat would you be a buyer at mcdonalds right now . I like this move. Id like it a lot. One things this guy did, he turned around the u. K. Started running europe, i like the new person. I also like the move that he took the cfo and moved him to the chief administrative officer. That is important because he is an expert at cost control so as stock goes i really like this move and i will start looking at buying it. Charles you are talking Something Different from mainstream, youre talking engineering bottomline numbers that sent the stock higher. What about topline revenue. What will get people
Im bill griffeth. Tyler and sue are off tonight. Ibm with better than expected earnings with a fast growing Cloud Computing business and Security Software and despite decreasing demand for its servers and storage products, here are the numbers that came out. Adjusted earnings 5. 70 a share, topping analysts forecast by 7 cents and fell from a year ago to 24 billion. That just missed wall street forecast. Shares initially higher in late trade on the news but then turned negative on weaker than expected forecast guidance for the full year. Bertha coombs joins us from the nasdaq with one big takeaway from ibms report. Reporter bill the big takeaway that ibm getting smaller. The company went from over a billion shares at the end of 2013 and as of december 31st they had 991 million shares. People said as their year over year revenues declined for seven straight quarters over the watch right now, the thing thats helped them on the bottom line is the Share Buyback and share reduction. Some pe