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So I ran into the office first thing this morning and thought who won last night’s raffle? If you don’t remember the story, take a look at my last blog. It was about a home that was being raffled off in Washington County, Md., and the proceeds were being donated to the San Mar Children’s home. Get this: The county clerk won! His name is Dennis Weaver and he bought one ticket!! When ... read more

Try this one on for size! Imagine this you could purchase a home by buying a $100 lottery ticket! Sound too good to be true? Depends on how you look at it. Karen Crawford, a resident of Baltimore spent two years trying to sell her home with no success. Several months ago she read an article in a local newspaper about a farmer in Ohio who decided to raffle off his farm. She decided to approach ... read more

As promised in my last blog, here is a recap of what Northrop Grumman chairman & CEO Dr. Ron Sugar said about the US Air Force’s $35B contract with EADS/ Northrop and Boeing vice president of Tankers Programs, Mark McGraw’s response. Note the last question I asked both of them about the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) review and whether they would be open to Congress recommending ... read more

Good morning everyone! It’s just about 5:30 in the morning and, wow, I just read our rundown (list of guests appearing on our show) and this is a show that you don’t want to miss. We are talking to an author who wrote a book called “Testosterone, Inc: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild.” He is going to tell us about some of the biggest scandals in business and politics and how these scandals affect ... read more

A couple of hours after yesterday’s show, I received an email from the Premier of Saskatchewan. I interviewed Premier Brad Wall earlier yesterday morning on Money for Breakfast about the country’s natural resources, its reaction to the threat by the Democratic candidates to invoke the six-month termination clause on NAFTA if the deal is not renegotiated and why he was down in Washington, ... read more

After watching the wall-to-wall coverage of Governor Spitzer’s resignation today, I can’t help but think about the great irony of this moment. Here was a man at the top of his game. He made many enemies along the way, but he also did some real good. He was the people’s advocate, the individual investor’s advocate. He was thought to be a future presidential candidate. He seemed unstoppable ... read more

Do you ever feel that there’s not enough time in the day to do the things you need to do? I do. Every day, I create my list of things to do – and occasionally, I accomplish a couple of them. At random points throughout the day I send myself emails and reminders, hoping that I will compile them all into one list and sit down for two hours and scratch everything off that list. I can't imagine ... read more

On Friday afternoon I saw a movie that I can't stop thinking about and highly recommend: The Bank Job. It's a home run. Three minutes into the movie you are hooked. It's one of the best movies that I have seen in years. My husband and I looked at each other after five minutes and had that giddy look on our faces. We see movies all the time and we haven't seen this kind of suspense and intrigue in ... read more

This evening (at about 12a.m.) my father-in-law sent me and many of his friends and family members an e-mail with excerpts from Lee Iacocca's book. Those excerpts are below with a brief biography. He is outraged about many things. Is his sentiment felt by others or has he gone too far? You tell me. What do you think? I am blogging about it because whether you agree or disagree, there is a ... read more

One of my favorite parts of The Opening Bell (airs 9-10a.m. M-F) is when we "turn the page." This is when I assign newspapers to my colleagues (Ashley Webster, Connell McShane, Robert Gray, Ray Hennessey, Adam Shapiro and our guest host). Their job is to take the newspaper that I assigned to them and go behind the initial headlines and give us a story that we may have missed. Each day at least one ... read more