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Motley Fool Money: 01.21.2011

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2011

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Is President Obama's new economic advisor a bad investment? What will a new CEO do for Google? Will healthier foods translate to healthier profits for Wal-Mart? And will the iPad be able to save Playboy? We'll tackle those questions, share some stocks on our radar, and talk with New York Times writer Eduardo Porter about The Price of Everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:09.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

0:19.5

Welcome to Motley Full Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Chris Hill.

0:22.5

And I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Ron Gross.

0:27.0

Hi, guys. Good to see you. Good to see you, Chris.

0:29.0

On today's show, we'll look at the big news from Google, Apple, Walmart, and more.

0:34.0

And as always, a look at the stocks on our radar.

0:37.0

But we begin with the big macro.

0:39.0

This week, the US-China Summit produced a trade deal worth $45 billion for some US companies.

0:45.0

And on Friday, President Obama announced that GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Emelt will head up

0:50.0

Obama's outside panel of economic advisors replacing Paul Voker.

0:55.0

Seth Jason, you're excited about Jeff Emelt coming to town, aren't you?

0:59.0

Jeffy. Jeff, while he's not going to come to town, this is the thing that, you know,

1:02.0

poor GE, they really all have a hell of a time, whether with the contracts and the government or anything.

1:06.0

There's no access in Washington, but now their CEO will go down there and rub elbows with the president.

1:11.0

And this is, by the way, exactly the guy you want in charge of economic issues and jobs.

1:17.0

I'm looking at a chart here that is the GE share price since he took over.

1:21.0

Only down 54%. That seems pretty good.

1:24.0

That's not picking within the margin of revenues.

1:26.0

Earnings also lower than they used to be.

1:29.0

By the way, they ballooned up during the sort of housing bubble, not coincidentally,

1:34.0

because GE was one of those companies out there making lots of loans.

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