Economy Mar 14 Do You Live in a Bubble? A Quiz Paul Solman interviews author Charles Murray about his book "Coming Apart" at a local diner near Murray's hometown of Burkittsville, Md. Note: A newly updated Bubble Quiz can be found here. White America is coming apart at the seams.
Economy Mar 02 Can Family-Owned Firms Compete? Hundreds of Marshmallow Peeps move down the conveyor belt to be boxed up at Just Born, Inc., a family-owned and operated confections business. Photo by Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and…
Economy Feb 24 Viewer Gives Paul Solman a ‘Hat Tip’ Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his http://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/makingsense/ ">Making Sen$e page. Here is Friday's "query": Name: Bob Comment: Ditch the stupid hat -- spoils your serious image!…
Economy Feb 22 Why Banks Are Getting Haircuts Home foreclosure in Greeley, Colo. Photo by Flickr user david_shankbone under a Creative Commons license. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name: Gordon…
Economy Feb 17 What Do ‘Mama’s Boys’ Have to Do With the Euro Debt Crisis? This isn't just a candidate for chart of the day or even chart of the week. Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital and former co-head of credit trading at Deutsche Bank, presented this at a conference on…
Economy Jan 30 Does the U.S. Actually Benefit From Free Trade? Image by Yagi Studio/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Doug Clymer asks: What is the benefit -- if any -- of…
Science Jan 25 Is There a Big Relief Rally Under Way? The European Central Bank's new headquarters, still under construction, right, are seen alongside other buildings within the city, across from the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Some might be expecting comment on the…
Economy Jan 20 Stand-up Economist Signs Off From China and Thinks About Its Future EmbedVideo(2491, 620, 386); In this final edition of our "Man in Beijing", stand-up economist Yoram Bauman ties up his China miniseries with thoughts on the future for the so-called "Communist" country. Five months doesn't make him an expert,…
Economy Jan 17 The Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer…’We Know!’ A cardboard poster on display at Occupy D.C. on Nov. 19, 2011. Photo by Elizabeth Shell. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on Making Sen$e page. Here are Tuesday's queries:…
Economy Jan 04 Laughing at Macroeconomics: A Cartoon Introduction By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates -- all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up comedian Yoram Bauman (who should…