Economy Jun 07 U-7 Up; Black Youth Unemployment Hits 42 Percent Our U-7 index includes everyone in the government's U-3: everyone who said they wanted a job and had looked for one in the past four weeks. It also adds everyone who said they wanted one, hadn't looked in the past…
Economy Jun 07 Over 20 Percent Youth Joblessness and Still No Apprenticeships? Photo courtesy of Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Robert Lerman is a centrist economist whose first NewsHour appearance in 2011 generated real wrath. Many viewers and the organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) objected to his assertion…
Economy Jun 07 U-7 Up; Black Youth Unemployment Hits 42 Percent By Paul Solman Our U-7 index includes everyone in the government's U-3: everyone who said they wanted a job and had looked for one in the past four weeks. It also adds everyone who said they wanted one, hadn't looked…
Economy Jun 06 Over 20 Percent Youth Joblessness and Still No Apprenticeships? By Paul Solman Photo courtesy of Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Robert Lerman is a centrist economist whose first NewsHour appearance in 2011 generated real wrath. Many viewers and the organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) objected…
Economy Jun 05 Fed, Big Banks, Social Security Beware: You’re on David Stockman’s Hit List // Paul Solman interviewed David Stockman on the PBS NewsHour broadcast. We recently interviewed former President Reagan budget director and private equity executive David Stockman about his recent tome, "The Great Deformation." In it, Stockman argues that the American…
Economy Jun 05 Fed, Big Banks, Social Security Beware: You’re on David Stockman’s Hit List // Paul Solman interviewed David Stockman on the PBS NewsHour broadcast. We recently interviewed former President Reagan budget director and private equity executive David Stockman about his recent tome, "The Great Deformation." In it, Stockman argues that the American…
Economy May 31 Do Americans Win or Lose When Someone Becomes a Billionaire? By Paul Solman French artist Jacques Callot created 18 etchings known as "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War," published in 1633. The works depict victorious soldiers burning down villages and hanging those who lost the battle. Is the case the…
Economy May 30 David Stockman: We’re Blind to the Debt Bubble David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, says America has become addicted to debt and that there's no way to avoid catastrophe. Still from NewsHour Footage. Paul Solman: On yesterday's Making Sen$e post,…
Economy May 30 David Stockman: We’re Blind to the Debt Bubble By Paul Solman David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, says America has become addicted to debt and that there's no way to avoid catastrophe. Still from NewsHour Footage. Paul Solman: On yesterday's…
Economy May 29 Paul Krugman on Debt, but Are Soaring Interest Rates Running Against Him? Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Still from NewsHour video. Paul Solman: The big brouhaha in economics recently, about which I posted some weeks ago, has pitted Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist…