Econ Analysis: CPI, Retail Sales
Airtime: Wed. Apr. 14 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Parsing today’s economic data with John Brady, of MF Global, and the CNBC news team.

Airtime: Wed. Apr. 14 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Parsing today’s economic data with John Brady, of MF Global, and the CNBC news team.

Following the same path as Japan, China will face an inevitable collapse within the next decade or so, says George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor. He tells CNBC’s Martin Soong that a country’s growth rate doesn’t represent health.

Ken Langone, CEO of Invemed and co-founder of Home Depot, shares his parting shots.

Treasury Secretary Geithner is set to give an important speech later this afternoon on the next steps for financial reform, with CNBC’s Steve Liesman

Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland are quite different from Greece because they have much better fiscal situations, Jose Vinals, director of the monetary and capital markets department at the IMF, told CNBC Tuesday.

“The big risk is that there will be a downturn in markets that could impact the bond, the equity and the credit markets,” Nouriel Roubini, chairman of RGEMonitor.com, told CNBC when discussing the economic outlook Friday.

Portuguese Central Bank Governor Vitor Constancio was formally approved by EU finance ministers as the next vice president of the ECB Tuesday. Constancio could be considered “dovish,” Nick Matthews from RBS told CNBC.