Jun 30 Troubled By Our Pension Post? Here’s Our Response By Elizabeth Shell // Watch Paul Solman's report, 'Is Your Pension Safe? States Struggle With Pricey Challenges.' Our blog post on pension contributions received a supposed "correction" which itself generated some reaction. We reproduce "DougMartin10th's" original comment and my response below. Even… Continue reading
Jun 30 Troubled By Our Pension Post? Here’s Our Response By Paul Solman // Watch Paul Solman's report, 'Is Your Pension Safe? States Struggle With Pricey Challenges.' 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:… Continue reading
Jun 29 As IMF’s New Chief, Will Lagarde ‘Keep Smiling’? By Paul Solman Christine Lagarde was nominated Wednesday to head the IMF. Photo by Dominique Charriau/Getty Images. So the synchronized French swim champ with accent-free English whom we interviewed last summer in Paris, Christine Lagarde, will run the IMF. What did we… Continue reading
Jun 29 As IMF’s New Chief, Will Lagarde ‘Keep Smiling’? By Elizabeth Shell Christine Lagarde was nominated Wednesday to head the IMF. Photo by Dominique Charriau/Getty Images. So the synchronized French swim champ with accent-free English whom we interviewed last summer in Paris, Christine Lagarde, will run the IMF. What did we… Continue reading
Jun 28 Latest Housing Prices More Than 30% Below Peak This month's Case-Shiller Home Price Index is out and, rather than paraphrase or plagiarize Phil Izzo's succinct account for The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog, how about we reproduce it? S&P/Case-Shiller home-price… Continue reading
Jun 28 Latest Housing Prices More Than 30% Below Peak This month's Case-Shiller index is out and, rather than paraphrase or plagiarize Phil Izzo's succinct account on the Wall Street Journal blog, Real Time Economics, how about we reproduce it? "S&P/Case-Shiller home-price data showed… Continue reading
Jun 27 Some Very Specific Mortgage Questions — and Answers By April Brown Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news. Paul addresses three queries on housing in Monday's post. Continue reading
Jun 24 Making Sense: Sneak Peek At a Rust Belt Success Story By Paul Solman A welder at Lincoln Electric. Photo by Jared Manders. We shot footage for an upcoming piece recently at arc welding manufacturer Lincoln Electric. The company, which we last visited back in 1992, is an improbable Rust Belt success… Continue reading
Jun 24 Sneak Peek At a Rust Belt Success Story By Elizabeth Shell A welder at Lincoln Electric. Photo by Jared Manders. We shot footage for an upcoming piece recently at arc welding manufacturer Lincoln Electric. The company, which we last visited back in 1992, is an improbable Rust Belt success story. John… Continue reading
Jun 23 Making Sense: Is China’s Economic Progress In Trouble? By Paul Solman Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley and now Yale, and author of the book "The Next Asia," has long been among the most astute and independent of economic forecasters. He has also spent much of the past decade… Continue reading