Feb 27 Making Sen$e: What Would Happen if the U.S. Government Collapsed? U.S. Capitol at night; file photo Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Monday's query: Name: Teri Question: In the event… Continue reading
Feb 24 Viewer Gives Paul Solman a ‘Hat Tip’ By Paul Solman Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his http://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/makingsense/ ">Making Sen$e page. Here is Friday's "query": Name: Bob Comment: Ditch the stupid hat -- spoils your serious image!… Continue reading
Feb 23 The Financial Answer Man: Carl Richards Takes Your Questions EmbedVideo(2772, 620, 386); By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell A while back we asked you to submit your most pressing personal finance questions so that I could put them to Carl Richards, the napkin-sketching, New York… Continue reading
Feb 23 The Financial Answer Man: Carl Richards Takes Your Questions EmbedVideo(2772, 482, 304); A while back we asked you to submit your most pressing personal finance questions so that I could put them to Carl Richards, the electronic-sketching, New York Times-blogging, financial literacy-teaching author of the… Continue reading
Feb 22 Why Banks Are Getting Haircuts Home foreclosure in Greeley, Colo. Photo by Flickr user david_shankbone under a Creative Commons license. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name:… Continue reading
Feb 22 Why Banks Are Getting Haircuts By Paul Solman Home foreclosure in Greeley, Colo. Photo by Flickr user david_shankbone under a Creative Commons license. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name: Gordon… Continue reading
Feb 21 Boomer Babies ‘Boomerang’: Happy Homecoming? Or Are Grads Giving Up? Image by the PBS NewsHour. The boomerang business is booming. Ever since our story on "accordion families" and "boomerang kids" ran last week, personal testimony has been coming in over the transom. We'll share a sample of it with… Continue reading
Feb 21 Boomer Babies ‘Boomerang’: Happy Homecoming? Or Are Grads Giving Up? Image by the PBS NewsHour. The boomerang business is booming. Ever since our story on "accordion families" and "boomerang kids" ran last week, personal testimony has been coming in over the transom. We'll share a sample of it with… Continue reading
Feb 17 What Do ‘Mama’s Boys’ Have to Do With the Euro Debt Crisis? By Paul Solman This isn't just a candidate for chart of the day or even chart of the week. Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital and former co-head of credit trading at Deutsche Bank, presented this at a conference on… Continue reading
Feb 16 A Spanish Love Story of Family, Work and Emigration From left to right: Paul Solman, Jose Antonio Martinez and Ana Westley in Spain, 2010. Image by the PBS NewsHour. Today, an email from old friend Ana Westley, an American ex-pat journalist who has written for the New York… Continue reading