Arts May 27 Making Sense: ‘Hey Paul: Do Something Useful For Once’ Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Name: Jerrold Jones Question: Hey Paul, Do something useful for once. Prove…
Economy May 26 Mortgage Form Makeover: What Do You Think? The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced plans to simplify the mortgage paperwork that has long confused potential homebuyers. "The current forms can be complicated and difficult for consumers to use. They are also redundant and…
Arts May 24 Making Sense: The Rising Price of Oil Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: William Bair Question: What, if anything, is be done on the…
Arts May 23 Making Sense: Is it Dumb to Play the Lottery? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: We received a fascinating email in response to last week's installment of…
Economy May 18 Making Sense: The Two Faces of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Paul interviewed Strauss-Kahn in September of 2009. Watch the interview here. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was as urbane and well-mannered an interviewee as ever you'll meet. Sensible and clear, as in a NewsHour interview during the heat of…
Arts May 17 Can You Make it Through the Month? Financial Decisions of the Poor Here's an online "game" found for us by one of our most trusted advisers, Boston University Finance Professor Zvi Bodie. "Spent" was created through a collaboration between Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina and the advertising firm…
Arts May 16 ‘Demand’ Driving Inflation? A Viewer Begs to Differ A complaint lodged with the PBS Ombudsman that was passed along after Friday's broadcast and seemed worth answering in a public forum. "I do not understand why Paul Solman did not challenge Roberto Rigobon when he said…
Arts May 13 Extremist Economics and Printing Dollars John Williams is an economic extremist. He thinks a collapse of the U.S. dollar and hyperinflation are just around the corner and that gold is therefore the best bet around. He thinks the government manipulates the economic data to…
Arts May 12 Making Sense: Are Taxes Lower Now Than the 1950s? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Peter Anderheggen Question: I recently heard that in 2011, the nation,…
Arts May 11 ‘Inside Job’: An Oscar Winner Answers Your Questions Editor's Note: Today we hand over question-and-answer duties to Charles Ferguson, former MIT academic and dot.com entrepreneur who is now a documentary filmmaker, and who created the Academy Award-winning analysis of the Crash of '08, "Inside Job." Last week,…