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The Business News Headlines & More 23 July 2021

For many it's the end of another work week...for many...us?  Not so much. However here's what we've got for you from the business news headlines and then click ahead for some light-hearted banter with Jeff Pitts from Cityview and "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro.

• Power tools that won't work if...stolen;
• Want to work for this company...get vaccinated;
• The Cleveland Indians are changing their name;
• Higher stamp prices and slower mail delivery;
• Yet another vehicle recall from GM;
• Tesla says it will accept Bitcoin but....
• The Wall Street Report;
• Getting a job call back years later? A trend.

Those stories plus Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine with a host of things to do...including Summer Stir that is going on...like right now.  And, we'll chat about sports and opera and watch a guy on Ring...hey, it's Friday!

Thanks for listening! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

 

 

The Business News Headlines & More 16 July 2021

It's the end of yet another work-week (at least for some...right?) and what a Friday it's turned out to be. One would think with some great retail sales numbers Wall Street would have had a party. One would...think. Here's what we've got for you today:

• Nobody seems to be buying "temporary";
• A deeper dive into the Consumer Confidence numbers;
• it's a "used car frenzy";
• American Airlines is betting you want to travel;
• This company wants to hire 50,000 workers in 60 days;
• The Wall Street Report;
• Forget semiconductors we've got another chip issue!

Those stories plus you'll hear from Jeff Pitts who is the managing editor for Cityview Magazine as we get our "Friday Fun Face" on and talk about a host of things going on in the Greater Des Moines Metro this weekend into next.  Click through to hear some (not so serious) chatter about things like music, sports, opera (Well, that IS music too...right?), county fairs, farmers markets, the Harlem Globetrotters, Zoo Brew, Christmas in July, the Clive Festival (No goats...we believe.) and much more. Enjoy...you deserve it!

Thanks for listening! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News Headlines & More 2 July 2021

Welcome to the Friday Edition of the business news headlines and, for a little hyper-local action, we've got Jeff Pitts in to chat it up about "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro.  But, firs the news:

• This can't be good: Lordstown Motors and the DOJ;
• GM turns heads with a lithium investment;
• Oil and OPEC+ made the news;
• Indiana and the U.S. Secretary of Labor;
• Troubles at IBM;
• The Wall Street Report
• Celebrating 850,000 jobs;
• Too much PTO what will employers do?

Just ahead of a long holiday weekend it's Jeff Pitts the managing editor for Cityview Magazine with our hyper-local look at "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro this weekend into next week. We've got cars, fireworks, parades, plays, sports, opera and more plus the side-banter can be fun. Even if you don't live close you'll get a taste of the Des Moines Metro here.

Thanks for listening! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News & Friday Fun with Cityview

For those of you celebrating today who are some federal and state workers, Happy Juneteenth. And, no the markets were not closed today but...they should have been considering what happened.  Also, because it's Friday stick around and listen to Stuff to DO in the Greater Des Moines Metro with Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine.  But first:

• A word snuck back onto Wall Street;
• It's the Oat Milk War;
• The great U.S. retreat from the ocean;
• Workers, Cars and Pot;
• The Wall Street Report;
• Employers and Juneteenth.

Now click through and listen as Jeff and I riff about Stuff to DO in the Greater Des Moines Metro.  We're talking art at Mainframe to sports with the Iowa Cubs to music in Altoona to music with Get Off My Lawn (and some name dropping) to bluegrass in Bevington to throwing skillets in Macksburg....no, really!

Thanks for listening!

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News Headlines & More 4 June 2021

The end of another week and we're glad you're with us. Today some positive job numbers moved the markets. We'll have that and more   PLUS, because it's Friday, Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine is in to chat it up about "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro. It's our hyper-local story.  In other news:

• The jobs report moved some numbers;
• The "My Pillow Guy" sues two companies;
• Who is worth more? Amazon or Google;
• Rising prices is a good thing says this chain;
• Tesla, Bitcoin, Facebook and President Trump;
• Talking Thanksgiving with Walmart;
• The Wall Street Report;
• An Elon Musk Restaurant?

Each Friday we roll in with Jeff Pitts the Managing Editor of Cityview Magazine to share with us "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro. Now, even if you're not from here you can get a "flavor" of stuff we...well, do. Also a bit of technical issues that I decided to keep in the newscast...just for fun.  Today Jeff is taking about:

• The Love Offering;
• Rendezvous on the River;
• It's Capital City Pride Month;
• Raccoon River Days in Van Meter;
• The Clive Chamber;
• Farmers Market;
• Free Fishing Weekend;
• "Learn At The Landfill";
• Drive in at Jordan Creek;
• Yo-yos;
• Cajun Fest at Captain Roy's 
• "Welcome to the Dark Slide";
• The Garden Art Show;
• The 41st Annual Ford and Mustang Show;
• And, the Iowa Cubs play.

Whew....

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News & Jeff Pitts 28 May 2021

It's the start of the Memorial Day Weekend...but we're still here with the latest business news headlines plus a fun look at "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro with Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine. But, first the news:

• The Pandemic and CEO Pay;
• The big story is...Inflation;
• Summer Driving driving gas prices;
• A bank called it quits...sort of;
• The Wall Street Report;
• Two Post Office stories...wow.

Then click through for Jeff Pitts who is in to talk it up about "Stuff to DO" here in Des Moines. From sports to music to yoga...hey it's the weekend! 

Thanks for listening!

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News Headlines & More 21 May 2021

As they say, "We made it to the weekend!"  Well, sort of. It is Friday and the day that Jeff Pitts joins us to chat it up about Stuff to Do in the Des Moines Metro but first the business news headlines:

• The Ford F-150 Lightning and 45,000;
• John Deere is having a record year;
• That proposed global corporate tax rate...
• Apple CEO Tim Cook was in court today;
• Market volatility and summer;
• The Wall Street Report
• Pandemic Winners/Losers?

It's the weekend and that means that we'll get to spend some time with Jeff Pitts the managing editor for Cityview Magazine as we talk up "Stuff to DO" in the Greater Des Moines Metro.  Have some fun already!  You've earned it.  On tap today:

• The Dew Tour is a deal;
• The I-Cubs are playing ball;
• A new farmers market in Cumming;
• The Downtown Farmer's Market;
• The Barnstormers vs. Duke City (who?);
• Wine, Music and More in Winterset;
• The Johnston Farmers Market;
• Smash Park Trivia;
• Teehee's Comedy Club;
• The Valley Junction Farmers Market.

Go already! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Air Guitar World with The Flying Finn

Over the years we've interviewed thousands of people from entrepreneurs and their startups to political folks and seasoned business people. This conversation is a...first. Here you will meet an international star from the world of air guitar competition. You read that correctly. Andrew Finn is "The Flying Finn".  Andrew has been performing for 16 years and recently on the international stage in (of course) Finland! And, in case you think this is a "one off", ESPN is slated to showcase the world of air guitar competition this summer. Here is a link to a video from his competition in Finland.  I sat down with Andrew to learn more and it's quite the story.

Thanks for listening. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News Headlines & More 12 May 2021

It's been a nightmare on Wall Street now for three days and the inflation numbers today really drove the markets down. Also today we've got an interesting conversation about the world of air guitar competition. No, really! And if you think this is too weird know that ESPN will, this summer, air the competition. You'll meet The Flying Finn in just a bit. In the news:

• Consumer prices shot up in April;
• The impact on Wall Street;
• Gasoline hording and rising prices;
• Hertz accepted a buy-out and it's a story;
• These brick and mortar stores are surging;
• The Wall Street Report;
• Rethinking "low skilled workers".

Over the years we've interviewed hundreds of people from entrepreneurs and their startups to political folks and seasoned business people. This conversation is a...first. Here you will meet an international star from the world of air guitar competition. You read that correctly. Andrew Finn is "The Flying Finn".  Andrew has been performing for 16 years and recently on the international stage in (of course) Finland! And, in case you think this is a "one off", ESPN is slated to showcase the world of air guitar competition this summer. Here is a link to a video from his competition in Finland.  I sat down with Andrew to learn more and it's quite the story.

Thanks for listening. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Business News Headlines & More 7 May 2021

Just before we get hyper-local and spend some time with Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine let's take a look at some of the top business news headlines from today:

• The jobs report was...shocking;
• The "We Build the Wall" guy is in the news;
• Pfizer CEO not happy with Biden;
• Jared Kushner and some legal issues;
• Melinda, Bill and Jeffery...it's a story;
• The Wall Street Report;
• Stuff you are buying as you consider office life.

Those stories plus we're in for some fun with Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine as we chat it up about "Stuff to DO" in the greater Des Moines Metro. As usual Jeff does not disappoint.  On tap today:

• Mother's Day (do NOT forget);
• The Iowa Cubs;
• The Iowa Wild (two games!);
• The Pella Adventure;
• Farmer's Market Talk;
• At Wooly's it's George Ducas!
• The Race Against Hunger in Norwalk;
• The Renaissance Fair at Sleepy Hollow;
• How many miles of bike trails?
• TED Talks coming to DSM;
• The AVID Speaker Series;
• What is going on at Smash Park?

Thanks for listening. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.