Jun 06 More Pain in Spain By Paul Solman People take part in a protest in front of a BBVA bank office in Barcelona. Photo by Josep Lago AFP/Getty Images This week here at Making Sen$e, we'll be featuring dispatches from Europe's financial front lines - mainly and plainly,… Continue reading
Jun 05 Who Benefited from JPMorgan’s Losses? JPMorgan Chase world headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is… Continue reading
Jun 05 Who Benefited from JP Morgan’s Losses? By Paul Solman JPMorgan Chase World Headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Tuesday's… Continue reading
Jun 04 The Heavy Load of Student Debt By Paul Solman // We first set out to cover the student-debt story last year when we read David Graeber's book, "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and listened to him speak (online). Graeber was pushing a proposal for mass repudiation of student… Continue reading
Jun 04 The Heavy Load of Student Debt By Paul Solman // We first set out to cover the student-debt story last year when we read David Graeber's book, "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and listened to him speak (online). Graeber was pushing a proposal for mass repudiation… Continue reading
Jun 01 Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.2% as 69,000 New Jobs Are Added in April By Paul Solman Unemployed veterans search for work at a job fair in Utica, N.Y., last month. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Uh -- not so good. Not so good at all. That's the verdict for Friday's unemployment numbers. Not only did employers… Continue reading
May 31 Watch Student Loan Debt: To Pay or Not to Pay? In his second report this week on student lending, economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the challenges that indebted college graduates face and the debate over whether to forgive some or all of their loan burden. Continue watching
May 30 Watch The State Of Student Loans: More Debt, More Defaults, More Problems The State Of Student Loans: More Debt, More Defaults, More Problems… Continue watching
May 30 Can You Still Work Your Way Through College? Vassar College Commencement on May 20 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images. By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell In researching the growing amount of college loan debt that students are taking on as academic sticker prices… Continue reading
May 30 Can You Still Work Your Way Through College? Vassar College Commencement on May 20 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images. In researching the growing amount of college loan debt that students are taking on as academic sticker prices steadily increase, we wondered: Is it… Continue reading