firestone s dividends are overdue, and investors are antsy. under pressure, the mastermind packs his bags and skips town. whew. he was gone. loaded everything into a bmw and headed south. narrator: detective jay brown begins to hunt for firestone with a search warrant for the con man s home and his computer hard drive. everything that was generated, all the paperwork that he generated, was in that computer. he had spreadsheets with victims and how much they paid and when their next check was due. and everything was fraudulent. every piece of paper that was generated over that five-year period was all generated in his loft by him to perpetuate this crime. narrator: the tool search documents tell the story of a classic ponzi scheme. there is no business, no products, no sales. nothing but money shifting from one investor to the next. his whole life was a lie. narrator: fbi special agent marcus knutson joins the hunt for firestone. well, jay and i were kind of behi
francine: welcome to the pulse. manus: i am manus cranny. we will be s aiming to peter altmaier we will be speaking to peter altmaier. francine: there is more evidence of the china slowdown this morning. 8.8% in august. that is the most since 2011. nick bottoms is standing by with more. what is driving the downturn? whammyhis is a triple for a lot of these industrial companies. the stock market crashed affected in a very bad way. a lot of their investments and demands are low for a lot of these drivers of the old economy. you want the valuation coming home to roost. a lot of these companies had lending denominated in dollars. their debt becomes more expensive. you are seeing a confluence of factors and the data showing how hard it is heading china s industrial companies. manus: where we see that evidence. if we look at the broader economy, we have had a raft of measures. drawing conclusions about where we are, whether it is a hysterical slowdown. or whether it is going to be
is the fact that the green natural hue has been carved in a cameo design. so it highlights the mountain peak, shown at the top, the pine and tree blossoms, the highly reliefed, carved pine tree issuing from the rock work at the base. so what they ve done is incorporate the natural features of the stone, or slate, to show a cameo effect. it s been mounted with iron painting hooks. however, it was never meant to be hung on a wall. it would have been on a reticulated bracket base, and stood 24 inches tall or so. the reason this is quite an unusual example is the fact that it s a large piece of carved slate. most duan examples are small inkstones. the carving s very, very highly worked, so it s a good quarter-inch off the base of the stone. ten years ago, this would have been worth between $800 and $1,000 at auction. all right. however, china s just become the second largest economy after america. the chinese are investing huge sums of money in decorative art, chinese works of ar
welcome to antiques roadshow cats and dogs. hi, i m mark walberg. people have long honored their four-legged friends in arts and crafts. and we ve put together a collection of appraisals we think is the cat s meow. so sit, stay. and stay tuned. woman: i got it in florida about 17 years ago. and i got it at an estate sale, but i don t know what i paid for it. i forgot. gary piattoni: can you guess? somewhere probably around five dollars. well, it s really charming, and it s a bronze. it s what they call an austrian cold-painted bronze. this cat also has a secret, doesn t it? that s right. the cat opens up, and it converts to a little naughty image here. right. and it s kind of, i would think, an early transformer. this was probably done around 1910. there was a very famous artist that made these. his name was bergman. and he did large-scale sculptures. but he always signed his small naughty bronzes, namgreb, which is bergman spelled backwards. oh. and he always signed
welcome to antiques roadshow cats and dogs. hi, i m mark walberg. people have long honored their four-legged friends in arts and crafts. and we ve put together a collection of appraisals we think is the cat s meow. so sit, stay. and stay tuned. woman: i got it in florida about 17 years ago. and i got it at an estate sale, but i don t know what i paid for it. i forgot. gary piattoni: can you guess? somewhere probably around five dollars. well, it s really charming, and it s a bronze. it s what they call an austrian cold-painted bronze. this cat also has a secret, doesn t it? that s right. the cat opens up, and it converts to a little naughty image here. right. and it s kind of, i would think, an early transformer. this was probably done around 1910. there was a very famous artist that made these. his name was bergman. and he did large-scale sculptures. but he always signed his small naughty bronzes, namgreb, which is bergman spelled backwards. oh. and he always signed