Motley Fool Money: 02.05.2010
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
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🗓️ 5 February 2010
⏱️ 39 minutes
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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 Fool Money. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, thanks for joining us. I'm your host, Chris Hill. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm joined by Motley Fool, Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmer. |
| 0:27.0 | Guys, good to see you. |
| 0:28.0 | Good to see you, Chris. |
| 0:29.0 | On today's show, New York's Attorney General throws the book at Bank of America. |
| 0:33.0 | Steve Jobs calls out Google and Toyota works on a fix. |
| 0:37.0 | We'll also be talking with Jonah Lara about his bestseller, How We Decide. |
| 0:41.0 | Turns out that, contrary to what we were told by our teachers in school, |
| 0:45.0 | there actually is a downside to doing too much homework. |
| 0:48.0 | All that, plus we'll give you an inside look at a few of the stocks that are on our radar. |
| 0:52.0 | But we begin with Friday's news that the unemployment rate in January dropped unexpectedly |
| 0:57.0 | from 10% to 9.7%. |
| 1:00.0 | This despite the fact that employers eliminated 20,000 jobs. |
| 1:04.0 | The labor department says the rate dropped based on a survey of households |
| 1:08.0 | that 20,000 job loss number comes from a separate labor department survey of employers. |
| 1:13.0 | Seth Jason, what should investors make of these jobs numbers? |
| 1:17.0 | Well, obviously the thing you do is you pick the number you like better. |
| 1:20.0 | And you make your decisions based on that. Did you talk to Jonah Lara about that? |
| 1:24.0 | This is, okay, to get to the end of the story, the takeaways. |
| 1:28.0 | The first one is that figures are kind of bogus if you don't know how they're gathered. |
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