Economy Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Foreclosure Questions On the NewsHour Thursday, Paul Solman had the first in a series of reports on the foreclosure debacle. In "Show Me the Mortgage," Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of…
Economy Oct 14 Why We’re Looking at Foreclosures On Thursday's NewsHour, we have the first in a series of stories on foreclosures. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes these stories are taking:…
Economy Oct 14 How Does Chinese Currency Hurt U.S. Debt? 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: Brian P. City and State: Madison, WI. Question: There has been…
Economy Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions on ‘American Grace’ UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday's NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of "Bowling Alone" fame about his massive new study of religion, six years in…
Economy Oct 12 This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Skeptics and Supporters A few words about the Nobel Prize in economics and this year's winners. First, the skeptics. They are eager to point out that the prize in economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences…
Arts Oct 08 September Job Losses Steeper, Worse for Economy Than Expected Disturbing September job numbers out Friday showed a net loss in total employment of 95,000 jobs, as the federal government dropped 76,000 positions, mainly Census workers, and state and local governments lost 83,000. In the private sector, jobs increased…
Arts Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis The past week's revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push…
Arts Oct 05 With Such High Unemployment, Should the Foreign Worker Program End? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Carter Question: Given current employment, why is there still an H1-B program…
Arts Oct 04 What’s The Best ‘Spending Yourself Out Of Recession’ Argument? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Monday's query: Question: You recently answered a question about why stimulus spending is the government's responsibility. I…
Economy Sep 29 Update | Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London. Several works we covered in our popular slide show sampler of the auction -- Lucian (grandson of Sigmund) Freud's portrait etching and Gary Hume's "Madonna" --…