In this episode of Benzinga's Zing Talk, we talk with Allen Wastler, Managing Editor of CNBC. Wastler discusses the history of CNBC.com and also gives advice to future journalists of the world.

In this episode of Benzinga's Zing Talk, we talk to John Roberts, Energy Security Specialist at Platts. John will be talking about how the recent uprisings in the Middle East will affect the oil markets.

Your book, The Little Book of Sideways Markets: How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere, is all about active value investing. You clearly favor an active investing approach to stay abreast of a sideways market. I just had Paul Hrabal (President of U.S. One) on the program, and he manages an ETF that invests in global index funds. His thoughts are that while the S&P may have been in a sideways market over the last 10 years, passive investors have still benefited from a worldwide net rise in equity prices in that same time period. What is your opinion of that sort of investment approach? Is it worth putting in the effort to identify individual stocks at that point? Or do you think it’s just more of a question of whether we’re looking at an erratically different 10 years ahead in terms of the structure of the global economy, and what we’ve seen in the past?

In this episode of the Benzinga's Zing Talk, we talk with Paul Hrabal, President of U.S. One and Chief Investment Officer of the One Fund. Paul discusses his company's approach to investing and his outlook for the U.S. economy for 2011.

In this episode of the Benzinga Podcast, we talk with Ben Federman, Founder and CEO of 1SaleaDay. Federman discusses founding his business and future growth.

In this episode of Benzinga's Zing Talk, AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson tells us his opinion on the state of the car industry in 2011.