Politics Dec 31 Why Barney Frank Took a Cautious Approach to Same-Sex Marriage // In an exit interview that aired on PBS NewsHour Dec. 26, economic correspondent Paul Solman spoke with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who plans to retire from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013. Watch this…
Economy Dec 31 How to Delay Your Social Security and Get the Most for Your Spouse Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility. Photo by William Thomas Cain via Getty Images Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes"…
Economy Dec 28 Mistakes: Paul Krugman’s, Greg Mankiw’s (And My Own) Left, Paul Krugman (Photo by NewsHour). Right, Greg Mankiw (Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images). Paul Solman: Both Paul Krugman, of MIT, and Greg Mankiw, of Harvard, were teaching economics locally during my formative years as an economics correspondent. I…
Economy Dec 28 Yes to Profit-Sharing, No to Layoffs for 64 Years in a Row! Worker pushing a table laden with copper coils at the Lincoln Electric Company. Photo by Bob Leavitt/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e…
Economy Dec 27 Running Scared: Getting Out of ‘World’s Safest Investment’ Photo by Dan Brownsword via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's query: Barbara Pendergrast -- Germantown, Tenn.: Mr. Solman, Do you think…
Economy Dec 26 Capital Wins, Labor Loses, But Andrew Smithers Says It Can’t Go On Warehouse manager at operations desk on computer. Photo courtesy of John McBride & Company Inc. Paul Solman: Jon Shayne is not just the world's No. 1 econo-crooner, belting out economics tunes of his own invention under the stage name Merle…
Economy Dec 24 What Happens to Unused Social Security Earnings When Someone Dies? Photo by Flikr User seen by tobfl via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of you…
Economy Dec 21 James Livingston: Corporations Don’t Need Our Savings James Livingston loves consumption, is skeptical of private investment. Paul Solman pushes him further on positions Livingston raised in a story on the NewsHour Thursday. James Livingston makes three economic arguments in favor of consumption over private investment/greater production.
Economy Dec 21 Will America Go Broke, Yes or No? Photo by Marc Grimberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: Ashok Rao -- Chennai, India: I recently came across…
Economy Dec 20 Holiday Shopping: Keynesian and Self-Actualizing Both? Paul Solman: On Thursday's NewsHour, a cerebral celebration of holiday shopping, courtesy of Rutgers University economic and intellectual historian James Livingston, author of the fascinating pro-consumption book "Against Thrift." Pitted against Livingston as counter-point is an anti-spending video from old…