Economy Feb 05 Two Takes on Unemployment Paul Solman: Harry Truman may have longed for a one-handed economist, but it’s probably good that he didn’t get one. Economies, like weather systems, are simply too chaotic to make prediction — much less prescription — unambiguous. It should come…
Economy Jan 19 Richard Freeman on Changing Wall Street Paul Solman: A few months ago, Harvard economist Richard Freeman took us on a recession walking tour of the Boston area. Among the many hats Freeman wears is working at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which declares…
Economy Jan 15 Paul Krugman on Values and Economics Paul Solman: To follow up our conversation with Paul Krugman yesterday on how to tackle financial reform, we go ‘up close and personal’ with the Nobel-winning economist today, kicking off with this question I pose to him: Don’t…
Economy Jan 14 Paul Krugman on Financial Reform Paul Solman: At January's annual economics meeting in Atlanta, we sat down one-on-one with a variety of intriguing economists, none of whom I've known longer than Paul Krugman. I first interviewed him in the early 1980s, back when…
Economy Dec 17 Debating the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes Editor’s note: Last night on the NewsHour, we had a look at the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, using as our vehicle an amusing rap song about the legendary economist and thinker. We’d hoped to have the full-fledged…
Economy Dec 10 Web-Exclusive Video: Is Retirement Good for You? Editor’s note: Tonight’s NewsHour features Paul’s Making Sen$e report on how older workers are struggling to find work in this tough job market, a segment we’ve previewed here on Making Sen$e. In a Web-exclusive video, Paul explores the debate over…
Economy Nov 06 Freelancers Lack Safety Net When Jobs Are Scarce Editor’s note: Tonight on the NewsHour, Paul explores the changing nature of work in a tough economy: Companies may be shedding jobs left and right, but they are increasingly looking for short-term employees to provide work they still need to…
Economy Oct 27 Inside the AFL-CIO’s Health Care Lobbying Efforts Editor’s note: Tonight on the NewsHour, Paul profiles Richard Trumka, the newly elected president of the AFL-CIO, the labor federation representing 57 unions and 11.5 million…
Economy Oct 12 Battle of the Stand-Up Economists Paul Solman: The NewsHour and then the Business Desk were, so far as we know, the first national stages for the self-professed “world’s first and only stand-up economist,” Yoram Bauman. We have henceforth taken what might be…
Economy Oct 05 The Great Recession Through an Economist’s Walk to Work Editor’s note: Harvard economist Richard Freeman recently sent us a fascinating slide show he’d created of empty storefronts around the Boston area. We liked it so much that Paul sat down with Freeman a few days ago for an…