The Business of March Madness
Airtime: Thurs. Mar. 18 2010 |
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is getting underway, and CNBC’s Darren Rovell looks at the business behind the madness. He’s joined by Greg Shaleen, NCAA SVP.

Airtime: Thurs. Mar. 18 2010 |
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is getting underway, and CNBC’s Darren Rovell looks at the business behind the madness. He’s joined by Greg Shaleen, NCAA SVP.

“I think what will actually happen to Greece and a lot of the other countries is, at best, stagflation,” legendary investor Wilbur Ross, of WL Ross & Co., told CNBC.

The world is doomed because the governments are taking over and will bankrupt us, says Marc Faber, editor & publisher at The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. He also tells co-guest host Michael Yoshikami, founder, president and chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisor, CNBC’s Bernard Lo and Karen Tso, that the Goldman fraud case was mainly political.

Discussing the US economy with James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

It is not too late to get into stocks if investors have a 6-month outlook, Peter Morici from University Of Maryland Smith School Of Business told CNBC Thursday. Justin Urquhart Stewart from Seven Investment Management joined the discussion.

As investors continue searching for buy signals, Gamco Investors’ Maria Gabelli tells CNBC he uses M&A activity as an indicator.

March wholesale inventories were up .4 percent, with CNBC’s Rick Santelli.