larry king now with the stars of walking dead have a great night. no there i marinate and this is boom bust here are some of the stories we're tracking for you today. first up senator rand paul pledges to block janet yellen is confirmation as bad chairwoman with out of vote on his bill to audit the fed we'll tell you all about it coming up later on in the show and there are some big time c.e.o. drama over a blackberry as a deal to buy the seed company has only grew and later on we sit down with the jump at mcdonald's the financial journalist with the inside scoop on one of the world's most secretive businesses that's right we're talking about mckinsey and company that consulting firm has had

a hand in everything from and wrong to the way this presidential election might apply and finally with all hit with all this action i bet it makes me if i want to lie down and take a nap and that might be the best thing for you to do in today's big deal will explain why that might actually improve your productivity at work but now let's get to this. janet yellen president obama's nominee to replace ben bernanke the fed chair has started meeting with senators ahead of her november fourteenth senate banking

committee hearing however there is one senator she is going to have. a tough tough time getting on her side and that would be mr rand paul the kentucky senator says cell block ilands nomination unless senate majority leader harry reid holds a vote on his bill designed to audit the federal reserve now senator paul recently spoke to bloomberg about how successful he believes this can that will be. janet yellen has been in favor of transparency at the fed that's all we're asking for is an open audit a year after the fact how about yellen per se will that nomination be approved visioneer will you be able to hold that we have filibustering in the old days you can place a hold on and keep it forever even if i stand on the floor and filibuster in a personal fashion by going all in for today as she's going to be confirmed in all likelihood yes but i want to draw attention. there now you heard it yourself from the fed agitator himself in all likelihood will soon see yellen as top dog at the federal reserve elsewhere big u.s.

banks are breathing a sigh of relief following a recent rally in the price of treasuries which brought the yield on the back down to two point six percent for meals around three percent earlier this year now the spike in treasury yields back in june was a result of the fed simply murmuring the word taper causing banks to suffer billions of dollars of paper losses but things are looking sunny again as big banks recovered eight billion dollars an unrealized gains so for all you investors out there the drama endured over the past few months seems to be settling down but don't get too comfortable because taper talks are bound to happen at some point in the near future and larry ellison is the third richest man in america and the highest paid c.e.o. of any public company in the entire world but oracle shareholders are trying to change all that now for a second consecutive year the majority of oracle shareholders voted down ellison's almost eighty million dollars compensation package and a non-binding resolution at the annual shareholders meeting now the shareholders

agreement well that is that the technology company's stock has plateaued especially relative to competitors like microsoft which has seen growth while smaller upstart companies have beaten into oracle's market shares as well now fifty seven fifty seven percent of shareholders voted against say on pay measure sounds like a close one right well mr ellison owns a quarter of the company's shares so if you take out his and the rest of the company's directors votes of a full eighty five percent of shared votes against the pay package that seems a little concerning now despite concerns about executive pay shareholders still they still reelected oracle directors that's kind of incredible debate is sure to rage on over this c.e.o. and what c.e.o.'s oh. their shareholders well there you have it those are some of the headlines we're tracking for you today well as always we'll be keeping you posted on all the latest events.

say good bye to the c.e.o. of blackberry monday morning the company announced for steven hines departure now this comes as takeover talks from black berry's largest shareholder fairfax financial holdings fell through and instead of fairfax buying and taking it private the mobile communications company announced it would receive one billion dollars from fairfax and other institutional investors wall street isn't having any of it black berry shares they plunged sixteen percent on the news that the buyout crumbles and the smartphone maker used to be the top dog but he fell in popularity to competitors like apple and samsung sales of the latest blackberry phone of the keyboard free z ten were dismal at best and the company had to write down nearly one billion dollars in inventory so what happened a blackberry and what's next to discuss i am now joined by kyle harrington founder

of harrington capital management kyle how you doing today well and how are you good good now first and foremost why did blackberry seem blackberrys takeover by fairfax fall through what's the what's the details behind them well i think that there's hesitation from fairfax would be my suspicion of the difficulty of taking blackberry private and then figuring out valuation and long term. liquidation of the company so i think in this situation what they've done is they've basically put forth a one billion dollar loan at a six percent interest rate which is a reasonable interest rate in this environment and then their share their convertible debentures would be convertible into the equity of the company going forward and i would suspect that in the public markets right now. before the fairfax jumped into the mix there were other private equity firms like that were very interested in this company so i think they're going to take

a position in the company earn an interest rate and then i think look at some of these other companies like to see what they do now that black berry is now open to take out other investments now how wall street has not responded well to the news this takeover falling apart what are the benefits and drawbacks of fairfax investing one billion dollars into the company rather than just taking it over. well i think that here you know fairfax gets a greater return on their investment versus just being an equity holder so they they have some security against the money that they've put up and taking it over you know is a big i mean is a is a difficult thing to do and take private and remember this company is a canadian based company so the rules will be slightly different in a takeover situation than they would be in the american marketplace and from what i understand

a bit more difficulty in the regulatory environment so i think that all of that together regulatory issues as well as compliance issues in the canadian marketplace may be lean fairfax to being more of a convertible debt holder earning interest rate on their debt and then staying in the public marketplace now obviously like we mentioned before it was announced today that black berry c.e.o. thorsten heins will be leaving the company but mr hynes is contract included a payment to the former c.e.o. worth at least thirty three million dollars if the company was acquired or if he was fired now the question is do you think that he had the right and sense incentives to turn the company around in two thousand and thirteen after the dismal sales of its latest line of phones the z ten and q ten i mean the incentives seem backwards there you're going to make a lot of money either way as there are so good luck what does that seem like to you it is exactly i mean one of the first things you learn in business school is you've

got to make sure the senior management see interests are aligned with you know shareholders and you know it's a great question i you know whether he does or doesn't and he earns this pool of money i mean it's you know it can be a very simple decision so i don't think that they were aligned properly and part and part of it i think you know answers the question of you know why black berry hasn't innovated their products as much is and. apple or google has and has been they fall you know they have fallen behind pretty significantly i mean i'm still a loyal blackberry user because i like the e-mail system and i think that a lot of folks in corporate america and the government as well are still using blackberry so i think that there's still significant value there but they've fallen asleep with respect to innovation and that has a lot to do with i think the alignment of interests with respect to c. level executives i mean if you're going to get paid regardless to what happens if

there's not much i mean how much is them doing anything better now it's rumored that our blackberry co-founders mike as a religious and they could be mounting a serious bid with. me. that's the new york investment firm along with qualcomm the san diego based mobile chip maker is not very still in the market i like you said like their it their phone off but there are they still in the market are they players that's another great question and i think the answer to that question is yes i mean they have a loyal user base and people read oh really got used to blackberry with respect to e-mail communication and so the united states government. a lot of folks in corporate america on wall street you know my area are loyal blackberry users so i think that when you look at some of these potential suitors likes of paris and some of the cove you know original founders i think what they see there is is is some value at the right price of course of course but i think that they continue to see

value with respect to the customer base they just need i think to they need to get back to the basics and innovate some more products in order to stay competitive because they've definitely fallen behind now vidar course in all of this getting was facebook who is rumored to have taken a meeting now how likely is it do you think that facebook lobs a bid in an attempt to kind of magic rules acquisition of my. especially given what's happened today from a strategic perspective i don't think it would be a bad idea at all and it wouldn't surprise me if facebook in fact did that in an effort to compete with you know what google has done like i said i think that there is value there with respect to blackberry but i think management interests need to be aligned and the customer base needs to be excited a little bit more going forward with with new product innovation so it would not surprise me at all from a strategic perspective if facebook put their through their hat in the ring in an

effort to acquire a blackberry kyle thank you so much for your time and insight would definitely have to have you back on the show in the near future and that was kyle harrington founder of harrington capital management thank you very much. coming up we look at the invisible hand that helps make the big decisions for american businesses and we're not talking about adam smith we're talking about mckinsey and company plus lululemon is having some transparency issues and we'll discuss all of that on today's big deal stick around we'll be right back. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on

their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question or. considered one of the most prestigious management consultancy firms in the world mckinsey and company is not only incredibly powerful but it's played a fundamental role in molding american capitalism as we know it today started in one nine hundred twenty six by accountant james mckinsey today the firm also

mckinsey better known to those in the know as the firm employees over seventeen thousand people and grossed more than seven billion dollars in revenue last year now over the years the firm has had some tremendous accomplishments and equally as stunning failures but joining me now from now our new york studio to discuss is jeff macdonald financial journalist and author of the new york times best selling book at the firm the a story of mckinsey and its secret influence on american business jeff thank you for being here with us today and i want to start off how has mackenzie shaped american capitalism as we know it today. well they've been doing it for almost a century starting with the insight that launched them which was james because he was an accountant and he actually created the idea of budgeting as a management tool you know instead of just filing your numbers and paying your taxes looking at them and using it to plan resource allocation and that's how they

got their start but these days they do everything from efficiency consulting which can involve layoffs to strategic consulting to i.t. consulting any question that the border management of a big company has about what should we do there's a good chance mckinsey is gets the call in there to help him figure it out now can you tell us a historically what are some of the most key moments mckinsey has had in shaping history. well one thing they did in the post-depression and postwar era even was to help large companies figure out how to just organize themselves it's called an m. form organizational chart but it's that thing that anyone who's worked for a company knows the sort of family tree or chart they help disseminate that. in the process helping sort of create the way that companies organize themselves another

big thing that they were involved in was the creation and dissemination of the whole idea of strategy you know most companies. spend a lot of their time just focusing on the here and now and mckinsey and a couple of their peers helped companies start to think about you know what you've got to do more than just pay attention to what you're selling in the store so you've got to think about what you're going to do with the future and how to allocate resources for that as they've been instrumental in doing that too and i want to get to that how they're going to react in the future in just a bit but first i want to say statistically speaking. you know as mckinsey had more hits than misses in terms of those that they've been advising we know they were at the helm of enron g.m. another pretty epic fail it's. absolutely you know they they were around when g.m. sort of ran into a wall in the eighty's and ron was a mckinsey was on the scene jeff skilling was ex mckinsey swissair they gave some

particularly dubious advice to which led to its bankruptcy but. these guys have eighty five percent of their businesses repeat business so they clearly have some happy customers and they're pretty much in the in the corner offices of the majority of and the big companies in the economy of the world these guys are literally everywhere now there is notoriously secretive mckinsey as a company how are you able to gain access to such a company. you know one interesting thing about their secrecy is that as a reporter it's it's often hard to get people to say negative things about a subject you're writing about just for fear of reprisal or the fact that people just don't like to be quoted saying negative things about anybody with mckinsey it was actually the opposite because part of the deal they have with their clients is that mckinsey doesn't take credit for their ideas it's actually harder to get their satisfied customers to talk about them because if you're the c.e.o.

of some company that used them and made a great decision you're not about to turn around and say oh don't think me you know think mckinsey it was their idea so it was an interesting challenge but it was just like any other reporting job that you have enough lead time on you start with a few people you gather a few straws and you just see where they lead you. mckenzie offered in the end what i call limited cooperation they came around and gave me access to a few dozen senior partners current and former and. basically i got that by showing them that i was out to write a fair book and not just some sort of take down you know i want to get to this in two thousand and eleven former mckinsey managing director he was convicted of insider trading after a week in privileged information which he garnered from his position on the board at goldman sachs that he leaked that information to raj rajaratnam at the time was

head of galleon group hedge fund and at the time is one of the largest hedge funds in the world and they both spent some time and what kind of trauma if any has mackenzie really suffered as a result of this incident. you know interestingly enough the iran mackenzie for nine years so it was it was a fairly mortifying experience for them but specifics of his particular crimes had nothing to do with mckinsey he had retired from mckinsey he was selling information to roger or was even selling giving information to rajaratnam from his seat on the board of goldman so mckinsey was just sort of in his bio it had nothing to do with that case what's more interesting is another person who was giving roger information was a neil kumar who happened to be a partner at mckinsey at the time and the fascinating thing about that is the fallout from that has been almost nothing as well i talked to

a number of clients of mckinsey and they most of the c.e.o.'s of large companies have a certain amount of sympathy for problems like you know with they called the bad apple theory you know if you're if you're of a certain size and if you're successful enough you're going to have rogues on the payroll the only question is whether it's systemic or beyond and apparently their clients don't seem to think that it was a problem with mckinsey but with that particular individual jeff thank you so much for your time that was duff mcdonald financial journalist and author of the new york times best selling book the firm now it's time for today's big deal. now in today's big deal lululemon athletica has made a ten billion dollar business out of selling uplifting women's behinds brands yeah

that kind of was weird but basically signed hot pants that make their butts look better but last spring the company face sheer terror when its famous black yoga pants was recalled after customers complained they were seethrough for now the recall cost christine de her job and now it looks like the hot pants are again in the hot seat customers are complaining that lumet movement pants are killing rachel what's going on here is this is this part two of what we already saw with lululemon pants off and soha well in a sense it is in the people are concerned again they're like you know the quality control here if there's killing taking place at the same time the last two lululemon big transparency scandal that we saw resulted in seventeen percent of the pants being recalled that's a huge amount what we're hearing this time is kind of a much more infrequent almost kind of story basis like a couple of people have their own personal takes they're bringing them to facebook

the financial journalist financial journalist kind of seized upon it the stock fell on friday and then has kind of stabilized once again today so are there but they're back a few minutes you can get it seems about they're back at even and it doesn't seem like it's going to have as big of an effect what happened in march actually at the end of the year may end up costing. anywhere from fifty seven to sixty seven million dollars in sales it doesn't look like this new round of pilling is going to be the same thing also i would add on kind of a more personal note i would rather have pants that pill than pants that are super all together you know what i mean that is special because. lumen was saying is what if you do. a test where you look in the mirror bend down and see if it's if i did then i never had to say i'm down to check out of my pants or go there and i don't think that you should have to do that and just you know if the fan it's him see that's like they just sort of like these really perverted sales people are you

better than you don't and that we're down to i guess and i mean it is yeah and also you said something funny earlier we were discussing this story off camera preparing for the show telling ain't that bad you can have it on your own i personally don't have a problem with killing i mean ok so listen i mean this is like seventy or eighty dollars for a pair of pants and i personally thought that was totally ridiculous still can't really afford it but in trying on a pair of pants the uplifting effective through incredible i mean this is not a yes you know this area this is going to give you that this is real and i didn't know it yet that's a reason why this is such a popular brand because it actually literally has that very uplifting effect that people are talking of these are not your grandmother's leggings. leggings are. no little i mean they face competition from a variety of different retailers but is are there any today on the marketplace that are as upscale and desirable and you know kind of special underwear you know that's

where you know actually going to be is also a status thing but the major thing that did that was really smart was that they actually gave the people who were teaching the classes huge discounts so that the people who were trying to mimic their yoga instructor when they did their downward dogs also were trying to mimic what they were wearing they thought that this is what you have to wear if you really want to do the best salute to the sun so that was really really savvy and gaff is trying to create its own brand of yoga clothes that also employs this method of giving these discounts to yoga instructors what they think is it's almost going to have the same trickle down effect you know if you give. discounts maybe a lead lost to the actual yoga instructors all of their you know all of their young grasshoppers are going to come in and buy those same clothes they clearly have just posable income if they're taking these yoga classes in the first place i don't know how the most of all income i had but i certainly trying to kuwait and bought the house of michael teacher. it really is

a look so good you know you yes they're getting it now lou lemon shares they fell sharply have made these allegations on friday but they've seemed to stabilize like we mentioned before what so the future for do you think you know their stock prices inflated and we're just going to see this because this is like you said an extra margin they're making off of probably cause very little and clearly they don't have a lot of people working on checking on the product afterwards or if they're going to hire some new people perhaps for that but it does seem like wall street to a degree has decided that this brand is stable once again they're not as concerned about the pilling as they were about the seat for you know i want to get to this really quick we don't have much time but sleeping at work it's generally looked down upon we're not allowed to do it but new research shows that naps can help workers increase their productivity during the day it can actually serve as a substitute for an adequate sleep now i got to ask you rachel now been on the job do you think it's a good thing do you think it's going to be better for society would seem so it could actually it's incredible of facts people are increasing their ability to take cognitive tests after they've taken

a nap but i do think that there are i mean there's a huge issue with i fell asleep at work people would think that i was being lazy and not doing my job and would think i was a big b.s. artist if i said i'm just trying to be more productive if i did a rather amazing interview two and a half hours. i did minutes from now i sware of the sharp as a tack yeah i feel like it's going to take a lot of rearranging how we see the workplace dynamic for that to work but i will say there are a lot of media companies like for instance huffington post they do have nap rooms and they've been mocked for it but this science team seems to support it well i'm hoping it catches on here to and that's all for now. and you can see all science majored in today's show at you tube dot com slash boom bust r.t. we also love hearing from you so please check out our facebook page at facebook dot com slash boom bust our take and from all of us here boom bust thank you for watching c m r l.

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