Arts Dec 13 What’s Causing U.S. Personal Spending to Drop: Job Losses, Fear or Both? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and site visitors on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Michael Cassady Question: Paul, If the U.S. consumer market is the…
Arts Dec 10 Loan Modifications: A Question of Economic Injustice? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Three questions today, one answer. Name: James Tracey Question: On a recent…
Economy Dec 09 Good Ideas to Save the Economy Can Have Unintended Consequences Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Fred Damato Question: Would this work to jump start the economy?…
Economy Dec 07 Two Retirement Planning Tool$ to Use NOW Retirement tools. The questions they ask you to fill in seem designed to scare your pants off: How much do you expect to earn on your assets? When are you planning to retire? When are you going to die?…
Economy Dec 03 Unemployment Figures: Worse Than They Appear The verdict on today's unemployment numbers is unequivocal. Conservative economist Peter Morici writes: "Terrible! Only 39,000 new jobs created is awful. After we back out health care and social services, which are largely government funded, the…
Arts Dec 02 Tips for Help With Your Home Loan Modification Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Ben Roman Question: I am having a problem with trying to…
Economy Dec 01 Million Dollar Question: How Can ‘Europe’ Bail Out ‘Europe’? I'm OK, EuroK? Maybe not. Here's an Australian parody video of what you might call "EuroK thinking." It's making the rounds in Europe at the moment. (The link was sent by a friend in Spain.)…
Arts Nov 30 Tool$ Tuesday | The Bush Tax Cuts Today's Tool$ Tuesday is another look at how the tax cuts might be implemented. This Bush Tax Cut tool comes by way of the Tax Policy Center, a much-appreciated think tank in today's hyper-polarized environment.
Economy Nov 29 Doesn’t Social Security Pay for Itself, Since It’s Taken Out of My Paycheck? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: The following email comes via the PBS Ombudsman: Name: Phyllis Koch Question:…
Arts Nov 24 What Does Justice in the Foreclosure Crisis Look Like? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: An amended answer today to a question answered imperfectly (or worse) last month.