Arts Jun 24 Paul Solman: Viewers Respond to Chicken Chase Scene We received a very sobering set of viewer responses to the opening sequence of our credit crunch story from Springfield, Mo., the other night, of which a few are excerpted below. I have to confess, I was so caught…
Economy Jun 16 Ask Roubini and Taleb Your Questions on Stimulus Spending, U.S. Debt Back in 2006, economist Nouriel Roubini and scholar Nassim Taleb shared some words of warning about the state of the financial and housing markets. On Tuesday night's NewsHour, we spoke with both of them again…
Economy Jun 10 Paul Solman: How Do Oil Imports and ‘Oil Independence’ Intersect? This entry is cross-posted on the Business Desk blog, where economics correspondent Paul Solman answers your questions on economic news. Question: I'm befuddled by the "oil independence" movement that is neatly summarized by the slogan "drill baby drill." This…
Economy May 06 Thoughts on Thursday’s Wild Market Ride For anyone visiting my Making Sen$e page Thursday to find out why markets are quaking, allow me to repeat the phrase that ought to be the motto for this page, so often have I used it: Credit comes…
Economy Jan 27 Country Crooner Merle Hazard Sings the Recession Blues Merle Hazard, who calls himself the “first and only country singer to write about mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and physics,” provides the soundtrack to our segment Wednesday night about whether the Fed’s interest rate policies will drive us toward inflation…
Economy Dec 31 Year in Review: Reporting on the Growing Ranks of the Unemployed It's been an odd year for anyone who, like your correspondent, makes a living in and around economics. Odd because, for me at least, there's a version of survivor guilt: The worse the world has gotten, the more interest there's…
Economy Mar 21 How much weight does the U.S. president have on interest rate changes? Question/Comment: How much weight does the U.S. president have on interest rate changes? The news talks about the Federal Reserve, but it seems it was Bush’s idea to bring them down low, so everyone can own a home. I know…
Economy Mar 21 How much national debt is a good thing? Question/Comment: Paul, please keep up your enlightening NewsHour segments. My question: How much national debt is a good thing? Generational fairness clearly calls for limits, but despite the many voices weighing in on this issue, I have yet to hear…
Segment Sep 23 Goal Line Economics: The Economics of Professional Football Did pro football, a multibillion-dollar business, become America's most popular sport by practicing non-free-market economics? Under football's non-free-market model, firms compete furiously, yet share the industry's revenues, with labor and with each other. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.