Science Oct 01 Feinberg: Gulf Oil Spill Claims Paid More Quickly, but Tough Calls Ahead Payments for claims tied to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are set to crack the $1 billion mark next week, but there are still at least 20,000 claims that have yet to be resolved and…
Economy Sep 23 Greenspan Warns U.S. Can’t Afford Tax Cuts, Debt Levels Too High Back in 2001, when then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave the Bush-era tax cuts his blessing, it was considered a pivotal moment that helped shape that debate. Nearly a decade later, Greenspan tells Jeffrey Brown that he now…
Economy Sep 21 Obama Economic Team Turning Over as Larry Summers Departs It's official now: With the midterms fast approaching, President Obama's economic team is turning over. The latest departure: Larry Summers, the president's chief adviser on economic matters and director of the National Economic Council, who announced Tuesday afternoon that…
Politics Jul 21 President Obama Signs Wall Street Reform Into Law After nearly two years, tens of millions of dollars in lobbying, and fierce battles between Democrats, Wall Street and banks, President Barack Obama enacted a major overhaul Wednesday of regulations covering the financial sector. It’s often been called…
Nation Jul 08 It’s Official: LeBron James Picks Miami Updated 8:00 a.m. EST Fans in Miami rejoiced. The longtime faithful in Cleveland mourned, with some going so far as to burn his famous jersey. And many of the rest of us were bemused, amused, or irritated by the…
Science Apr 29 White House Promises Aggressive Response to Gulf Oil Spill A boat makes its way through a vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images). More images below. As a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico creeps to within a…
Health Mar 20 Democrats Inch Closer to Pushing Health Reform Over Finish Line With the hours ticking down before a pivotal vote on the fate of health reform, President Obama made a trip to Capitol Hill Saturday to rally the House Democratic caucus one final time in his push to persuade undecided…
Economy Dec 13 Remembering Economist Paul Samuelson Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman's reflections on Samuelson's life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in modern economics Sunday when Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson died at his home…
Nation Dec 08 New Warnings and More Debates on Day Two of Copenhagen It's Day Two of the big climate change summit in Copenhagen and if some of today's headlines tell you nothing else, it should convey both the difficulty of getting something significant done in the next two weeks and the…