Congress and President Obama did not have much of a winter break as they scrambled to come up with a solution to the so-called “fiscal cliff”, which threatened to send the economy back into recession.
Business and economics correspondent Paul Solman responds to a reader's question about economist Gar Alperovitz and his push for a public takeover of banking, and other industries as well.
New numbers on poverty among U.S. children, released this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, found that 31 million children in 2009 were living in families that are at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Economics correspondent Paul Solman takes his Business Desk blog inside classrooms across the United States to respond to high school students' most pressing questions about Wall Street, the recession and unemployment.
What have you been watching on your computer lately? More and more Americans are checking out movies and television program online. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the recent push toward more streaming content with GershonMedia's Bernard Gershon.
It's the mystery of it, I think. It's very intriguing.
