Feb 24 Making Sen$e: Paying For Public Pensions By Paul Solman Editor's Note: As the fire over collective bargaining and public worker benefits burns across the country, on Thursday's broadcast we're looking at perhaps the issue behind it all: public pensions and how to pay for them. Our story… Continue reading
Feb 24 Paying For Public Pensions By Elizabeth Shell Editor's Note: As the fire over collective bargaining and public worker benefits burns across the country, on Thursday's broadcast we're looking at perhaps the issue behind it all: public pensions and how to pay for them. Our story takes place… Continue reading
Feb 23 The Pain in Spain: How Hard Is the Rain Gonna Fall on the Plains? By Paul Solman The specter of Euro-debt default is again roiling the markets. "Worries Over Europe Pose Risks for Euro," read a headline in Monday's Wall Street Journal. "Spain Pegs Cajas' Possible Problem Debt," warned another. (Cajas are the… Continue reading
Feb 23 The Pain in Spain: Hard Rain Gonna Fall? By Elizabeth Shell The specter of Euro-debt default is again roiling the markets. "Worries Over Europe Pose Risks for Euro," read a headline in Monday's Wall Street Journal. "Spain Pegs Cajas' Possible Problem Debt," warned another. (Cajas are the regional Spanish… Continue reading
Feb 22 Tool$ Tuesday: You Cut the Deficit By Paul Solman As the President and Congress wrestle over the particulars of a trimmed-down federal budget, the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, funded by longtime budget nudge Pete Peterson, offers this tool for lowering the debt load… Continue reading
Feb 21 What Do Wisconsin Protests Say About Organized Labor? By Paul Solman Having begun my journalism career in college in the '60s, I figure I've been covering the labor movement for nearly half a century - a half century of relative decline. It's easy to understand in retrospect. After World… Continue reading
Feb 21 What Do Wisconsin Protests Say About Organized Labor? By Francine Uenuma Having begun my journalism career in college in the '60s, I figure I've been covering the labor movement for nearly half a century - a half century of relative decline. It's easy to understand in retrospect. After World War II,… Continue reading
Feb 18 The Machine Breakers We Have Always With Us By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: A long and interesting email arrived recently from one Jean Maier. Continue reading
Feb 18 NIIP’ing International Investment Confusion in the Bud By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: The epic e-epistle from one Jane Maier comes to an end… Continue reading
Feb 16 Merle Hazard and You: And the Winner Is… By Paul Solman We have an update on our country-country lyric contest, inspired by the econo-crooner Merle Hazard. Those of you who frequent these pages often will remember our series late last month where Merle lyricized about the financial crises in… Continue reading