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2000
DECEMBER
December 27, 2000
Shopping
for Stocks
Terence Smith reports on who really gains from televised stock
analysis.
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December 26, 2000
New
Arthritis Drugs
The marketing war between two major drug companies helps
inflate the cost of new arthritis medication.
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December 26, 2000
Slumping
Holiday Sales
Retailers hope to recoup disappointing sales with post-holiday
discounts. Paul Solman talks with Kurt Barnard, president of Barnard's Retail
Trend Report, and Standard and Poor's economist David Wyss.
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December 25, 2000
Moving
South
A major sporting goods firm closes its last American plant and moves
to Mexico.
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December 22, 2000
Lights
Out
Spencer Michels reports on the California energy crisis
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December 19, 2000
Economy
in Transition
Experts discuss the politics of the slowing economy.
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December 6, 2000
The
Greenspan Magic
Why do the words of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan hold such
power over financial markets? Journalists discuss his influence.
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NOVEMBER
November 30, 2000
Power
Prices
Spencer Michels reports on electricity deregulation and rising power
prices in California.
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November 24, 2000
Crude
Economics
Tom Bearden reports on the economics of refining oil.
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November 24, 2000
Growing
Pains
Business correspondent Paul Solman looks at the shakeout occurring
in the online economy.
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November 15, 2000
Next
Move
Jim Lehrer leads a discussion on the effect of the drawn-out electoral
process on the stock market.
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OCTOBER
October 24, 2000
Economic
Impact
Margaret Warner leads a discussion on the candidates' economic plans.
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October 18, 2000
Ups
and Downs
Ray Suarez leads a discussion on the volatile stock market.
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October 17, 2000
Competing
Tax Plans
Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston examines both major party presidential
candidates' tax plans.
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October 3, 2000
Surplus
Economics
Economics correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston discusses the
presidential candidates' proposals for the budget surplus. |
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SEPTEMBER
September 25, 2000
eBay
Spencer Michels reports on the world of online auctions.
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September 22, 2000
Newsmaker:
Bill Richardson
Jim Lehrer and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson discuss
the White House's decision to tap oil from the nation's reserve.
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September 22, 2000
Breaking
the Fall
Ray Suarez discusses efforts to prop up the sagging euro.
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September 21, 2000
Tapping
the Reserves
A report and discussion on whether to tap the nation's oil
reserves in response to high oil prices.
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September 4, 2000
Violence
in the Workplace
Three experts discuss violence in the workplace.
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AUGUST
August 10, 2000
Unfriendly
Skies
United Airlines suffers under repeated weather delays and labor problems.
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August 8, 2000
Crossed
Wires
Workers at Verizon Communications, the dominant east-coast phone company,
went on strike Sunday.
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August 8, 2000
The
Money Pit
Correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston examines a federally-funded
construction project of epic proportions.
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JULY
July 18, 2000
Working
Teens
Nationwide, 80 percent of all teens hold after school or summer jobs.
Employers battling labor shortages are employing teens in record numbers, but
for how much and how long?
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July 7, 2000
Dot-Com
Failures
A discussion of the recent layoffs and closures plaguing Internet
startups.
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JUNE
June 12, 2000
Easing
the Pain
Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW in Chicago examines the debate over
government guidelines on making the workplace ergonomically correct.
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June 2, 2000
Pumped
Up
Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW reports from Chicago, where gas prices
are over $2 a gallon, then,
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June 2, 2000
Jobs
for Grads
Unemployment inches upwards just as the Class of 2000 starts looking
for work.
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June 1, 2000
Stock
Options in a High Tech World
Business correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston
reports on the use of stock options as the new currency.
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MAY
May 16, 2000
Inflation
Fight
A discussion about the effects of inflation and what to expect in
the coming economy.
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May 16, 2000
The
Uninsured in America
This report coincides with the release of a Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation/NewsHour survey which examines the difficulties faced
by those without health coverage.
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May 11, 2000
Margin
Trading
The risks of playing the stock market on the margin.
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May 10, 2000
Hitting
the Jackpot
Alan Wolfe, the director of the Center for Religion and American
Public Life at Boston College, and Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at
George Mason University and the author of "In Praise of Commercial Culture,"
report on the growth of lottery mania.
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May 10, 2000
Down
in the Valley
Correspondent Spencer Michels takes a look at a not-so-familiar
side of life in California's high-tech corridor.
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May 9, 2000
Downscale
Marketing
Business correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston looks at the
big business of small budgets. The profits of Ames and downscale department
stores.
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APRIL
April 17, 2000
Damage
Assessment
Updating the turns and twists of recent market jitters. Guests
are Henry Hu, a professor of banking and finance law at the University of Texas,
Bob Walberg, chief equity analyst at Briefing Dot Com, an online research and
analysis firm and John Steele Gordon, author of "The Great Game: The Emergence
of Wall Street as a World Power."
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April 14, 2000
Inflation
Fears
Inflation is up, the market is down, has America's economic boom hit
hard times? Gail Fosler, senior vice president and chief economist at the conference
board, a global business research organization that tracks economic indicators
and Richard Berner, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
discuss the market and economy.
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April 11, 2000
Forgiving
the Debts?
Economics correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston reports on
the Jubilee Project, which advocates writing off loans to poor countries.
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April 5, 2000
Wild Time on Wall Street
Ash Rajan, senior vice president with Prudential Securities; Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at First Albany Corp.; E. David Ellington,chairman and CEO of NETNOIR; and Robert Shiller, author of "Irrational Exuberance," discuss the trends on Wall Street. |
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MARCH
March 31, 2000
Price
Squeeze
Correspondent Kwame Holman reports on the system for setting U.S.
milk prices.
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March 22, 2000
White
Collar Strike
Correspondent Mike James of KCTS in Seattle reports on the
impact of Boeing's labor troubles.
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March 16, 2000
Hoop
Dreams
Economics correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston reports on the
money that has become a part of the NCAA championships with CBS television's
$6 billion contract to televise the games for the next 11 years.
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March 15, 2000
Paying
at the Pump
Gary Ross, chief executive officer at the Pira Energy Group,
an international energy consulting firm; Walter McCormick Jr., president and
CEO of the American Trucking Associations; Carl Pope, executive director of
the Sierra Club; Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Consumer Federation of America
and a former senator from Ohio, discuss the continuing price hikes in the oil
industry.
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March 10, 2000
Market
Rocket
Aash Rajan, senior vice president at Prudential Securities, and David
Levy, vice chairman of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute at Bard College,
discuss the success of the NASDAQ stock market one day after it passed the 5,000
mark.
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March 7, 2000
Newsmaker:
Dan Glickman
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman talks about the new USDA
rules defining what "organic" food is.
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March 1, 2000
Forum: Taxing Internet Sales
Should sales over the Internet be taxed like purchases in retail stores? James Gilmore, governor of Virginia, and Mark A. Murray, state treasurer of Michigan, respond to your questions. |
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FEBRUARY
February 25, 2000
Sliding
Stocks
With a 230-point drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has
declined nearly 16 percent from the all-time high set Jan. 14. Yet the NASDAQ
market of technology stocks is up 13 percent for the year despite a small
decline. Two experts explain the situation.
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February 17, 2000
A
Crude Awakening
Daniel Yergin from Cambridge Energy Research Associates,
Joseph Kennedy from Citizens Energy Corp. and Phil Flynn from Alaron.com examine
the reasons behind the rising costs of oil and gas.
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February 8, 2000
Going
Wireless
Bob Egan, vice president and research director at Gartner Group,
a global Internet technology consulting firm, and Paul Saffo, director of the
Institute for the Future, a technology forecasting think tank, explore the new
world without wires.
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February 4, 2000
Ford.com
Jacques Nasser, head of Ford Motor Co., talks about the decision to bring employees
up to speed in the technology realm by giving them individual computers.
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February 2, 2000
Caring
for the Children
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser takes a look at the difficulties
of balancing welfare, work and childcare -- and who pays.
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February 1, 2000
Money
Matters
Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy, a software and Internet company;
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a professor of social and political ethics at the University
of Chicago; Alan Ball, author of the screenplay for the movie American Beauty;
and James Twitchell, professor of English and author of "Lead Us into Temptation:
The Triumph of American Materialism", discuss the cultural impact of the
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JANUARY
January 31, 2000
Food
Fight
Frank Loy, undersecretary of state for global affairs, and John Richardson,
deputy head of the European Commission's delegation to the United States, discuss
the ramifications of an international treaty agreement to regulate genetically
altered food, which was signed by the United States last weekend.
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January 17, 2000
Safe
at Home
Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on efforts to ensure
a safe home office.
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January 13, 2000
A
New Economy?
Economics reporter Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston goes to the American
Economics Association's annual meeting to ask economists their take on the hows
and whys of the current economic boom.
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January 12, 2000
Newsmakers:
Steve Case and Gerald Levin
Steve Case, chairman and chief executive officer
of America Online, and Gerald Levin, Time Warner's chairman and chief executive
officer, talk about the AOL/Time Warner merger, the most significant coming
together of the Internet and mass media to date.
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January 10, 2000
AOL/Time-Warner:
Largest Corporate Merger
Jim Ledbetter, New York bureau chief for the Industry
Standard, a weekly newsmagazine covering the Internet economy, and three other
experts examine the merger by Internet leader America Online and media conglomerate
Time-Warner.
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January 7, 2000
Market
Watch
Gail Fosler, chief economist at the Conference Board, a business research
organization, and Michael Englund, chief market economist at Standard and Poor's,
a bond market information and consulting company, examine the unemployment
figures and market surge following a week of stock volatility.
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January 4, 2000
Greenspan
Accepts Re-nomination
President Clinton nominated Alan Greenspan to a fourth
term at the helm of the Federal Reserve. Jack Kemp, co-director of Empower America
and '96 running mate of Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole; Robert Reich,
former secretary of Labor and currently professor of economic and social policy
at Brandeis University; and Robert Hormats, vice chairman of investment firm
Goldman Sachs International, discuss Greenspan's longterm, bipartisan appeal
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