Forever. And superstar entertainer dolly parton. She dishes on her legendary career and the novel way that she is launching her new music album. But first, lets launch into headlines with my radio could he host cohost. Thank you very much. Ford out with its earnings today. The automakers First Quarter net income coming in just below 1 billion. The number represents a 39 drop from a year ago and less than analysts were looking for. Ford shares falling on that news. Russias sovereign debt rating cut to the lowest investment grade. The Credit Agency saying further downgrades are possible. Russia responded by raising its benchmark Interest Rates from 7 to 7. 5 . And the nasdaq tumbling today, the most in two weeks. The index retreated nearly 2 as amazon slowed the most since january. Thats a look at some of the top headlines at this hour. Thanks very much. For more on todays market decline i want to bring in joe. Hes the founder and the chairman of macalindon research partners. Tell me abo
Host end i was caught by this subtitle, the exposing the dark side of the personal finance industry which a later you called the personal finance industry complex that is not only investment banks and brokers and Financial Planners also the Financial Media seminar leaders and even include yourself as of former columnist for the l. A. Times monday makeover column a and call yourself as part of the complex and point out with some guilt is you were responsible for giving people the illusion of control. What you mean by that . Guest i will backtrack. Personal finance started 1930s with the Sylvia Porter spinning out of the selfhelp business that are known for everything from saw hard Economic Times with Alcoholics Anonymous developed to Napoleon Hill sinking negative rich, various social activist movements, fascism and there are others in developing and her goal is to educate people about the Great Depression will never happen again but it is the a deal we can teach people certain skills a
President obama and our great leader, tom vilsack has an opportunity to share with us visions for were going in the second term. It seems like a sequester come to sequester come to sequester and that certainly does weigh heavily on our shoulders, but nevertheless come were applied rumor going to do some incredibly great things in the second turned and im sure hes very excited to share that with you. I also want to recognize that we have a lot of young people in the audience from the Outlook Forum Student Diversity program, now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates and for the first time, 10 graduate students are here to gain insights into food monoculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. Congratulate them for being here, mentor them over the course of a couple of days. That would be great. I know how these people are because i have an alumnus of this program who works in my office and these are the people who are going to beat american agriculture in the future. Many th