Jan 11 How Are Tax-Rate Adjustments, Government Revenues Related? Image by Jon Boyes/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Elke from Roswell, N.M. asks: If tax rate adjustments… Continue reading
Jan 10 Does the Desire to Make More Money Increase Economic Inequality? Photo of Steve Jobs in 2010 by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Livingston Question:… Continue reading
Jan 10 Does the Desire to Make More Money Increase Economic Inequality? Photo of Steve Jobs in 2010 by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Livingston… Continue reading
Jan 09 Could the U.S. Follow in the Eurozone’s Footsteps? German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday at the Chancellery in Berlin. The two leaders discussed the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users… Continue reading
Jan 09 Could the U.S. Follow in the Eurozone’s Footsteps? German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday at the Chancellery in Berlin. The two leaders discussed the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web… Continue reading
Jan 06 Unemployment Dips to 8.5%, Lowest Rate in 2 Years A jobs sign hangs above the entrance to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images. By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell Friday's unemployment figures are positive all around: The official unemployment number… Continue reading
Jan 05 Could a Higher Import Tariff Pay for Medicare and Get the US Out of Debt? Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship at the Port of New Orleans in Louisiana. Photo by Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on… Continue reading
Jan 05 Could a Higher Import Tariff Pay for Medicare and Get the U.S. Out of Debt? Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship at the Port of New Orleans in Louisiana. Photo by Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on… Continue reading
Jan 04 Laughing at Macroeconomics: A Cartoon Introduction By Elizabeth Shell, Paul Solman By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates -- all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up comedian Yoram Bauman (who should… Continue reading
Jan 03 Should Our Economy Run Like a Cardiovascular System? Photo by RunPhoto via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: Paul Johnson, Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist and adjunct… Continue reading