Economy Oct 22 Would Unemployment Drop If Wages Were Tied to a Firm’s Profits? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Name: Dr. Morris Weinberger Question: Could unemployment be ameliorated by using the…
Arts Oct 21 Why Not Use Financial Revenues to Pay Down the National Debt? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Missy Rodey Question: Paul - I understand that about 50 percent…
Economy Oct 20 Nonprofit Bank Buys Foreclosed Homes, Then Sells Them Back to Former Owners // We have the third installment of our Making Sen$e foreclosure series on Wednesday's NewsHour. The focus: Boston Community Capital, a privately and publicly funded "community development finance institution." In this web video exclusive, we talk to…
Economy Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Foreclosure Questions On the NewsHour Thursday, Paul Solman had the first in a series of reports on the foreclosure debacle. In "Show Me the Mortgage," Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of…
Economy Oct 14 Why We’re Looking at Foreclosures On Thursday's NewsHour, we have the first in a series of stories on foreclosures. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes these stories are taking:…
Economy Oct 14 How Does Chinese Currency Hurt U.S. Debt? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$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…