Scholastic’s Failing Grade
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🗓️ 22 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Shares of chipmaker AMD pop on reports of a partnership with Tesla. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the challenges Scholastic faces as its stock hits a 52-week low. KB Home’s board of directors moves (with surprising speed) to punish its CEO. Plus, we offer a sneak preview of our upcoming bonus episode and announce one of the prizes for our “CEO Buddy Cops” movie contest.
(Tangents include Las Vegas, the international space station, and our upcoming bonus episode!)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 21st. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Barker. |
| 0:09.1 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:12.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:13.0 | Can we, before we get into the news of the day, because there is news, we're going to talk automotive, |
| 0:18.0 | we're going to talk publishing, we're going to talk about a board of directors that appears to be highly engaged, |
| 0:24.4 | unlike the people who are asleep at the switch over at Equifax. |
| 0:28.2 | We're going to get to all of that, but you were last week at an investment conference in Las Vegas, America's Playground. |
| 0:37.3 | What is one investing takeaway you can share from that conference? |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, I can't tell you what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, Chris, you know that? |
| 0:46.7 | You know what? |
| 0:49.8 | I expect better from you than just hackneyed lines like that. |
| 0:53.0 | Really? |
| 0:54.0 | There must well. |
| 0:55.0 | Come on. |
| 0:56.0 | Only slightly better. |
| 0:57.0 | Come on. |
| 0:58.0 | You're at a Deutsche Bank conference. |
| 0:59.0 | There must have been one or two things that you can share. |
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