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" --…
Arts Sep 24 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers Two years to the month after the titan of Wall Street declared bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers' extensive and diverse art collection is headed to the titans of the auction block: Sotheby's of New York and Christie's of London. The art was…
Economy Sep 17 Sizing Up Wall Street Critic Elizabeth Warren as Your Consumer Advocate Today, Elizabeth Warren was put into de facto control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she helped conceive. Opposition from America's banks was the widely reported reason she wasn't formally nominated to run it. One might wonder that the U.S.