Oct 21 A Closer Look at Herbal Supplements UPDATE | Oct. 22, 2010 from Paul Solman: Apologies to all who know biology: this story identified A,C,G and T as AMINO acids. They're NUCLEIC. ................................................................................................................................................ Paul Solman's Making Sen$e segment on Thursday's NewsHour looks at a new… Continue reading
Oct 21 Why Not Use Financial Revenues to Pay Down the National Debt? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Missy Rodey Question: Paul - I understand that about 50 percent… Continue reading
Oct 20 Nonprofit Bank Buys Foreclosed Homes, Then Sells Them Back to Former Owners By Paul Solman // We have the third installment of our Making Sen$e foreclosure series on Wednesday's NewsHour. The focus: Boston Community Capital, a privately and publicly funded "community development finance institution." In this web video exclusive, we talk to… Continue reading
Oct 19 One Producer’s Take on Putting a Human Face on the Foreclosure Story By Elizabeth Shell Editor’s note: Here on Making Sen$e, we like to highlight great and interesting work, tools and multimedia that are circulating the Web. While those usually involve the bylines of economists or business experts, that’s not always the case. Continue reading
Oct 18 Your Religion Questions Answered: Robert Putnam of ‘American Grace’ Last week, Paul Solman talked to Harvard policy professor Robert Putnam about religion in America and his new book, “American Grace.” Professor Putnam agreed to answer some of your questions — here are his replies. Continue reading
Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Foreclosure Questions By Paul Solman On the NewsHour Thursday, Paul Solman had the first in a series of reports on the foreclosure debacle. In "Show Me the Mortgage," Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of… Continue reading
Oct 14 Why We’re Looking at Foreclosures By Paul Solman On Thursday's NewsHour, we have the first in a series of stories on foreclosures. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes these stories are taking:… Continue reading
Oct 14 How Does Chinese Currency Hurt U.S. Debt? 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 Thursday's query: Name: Brian P. City and State: Madison, WI. Question: There has been… Continue reading
Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions on ‘American Grace’ By Paul Solman UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday's NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of "Bowling Alone" fame about his massive new study of religion, six years in… Continue reading
Oct 12 More From Robert Putnam on ‘American Grace’ By Elizabeth Shell // On Monday's broadcast, correspondent Paul Solman interviewed Robert Putnam, a Harvard public policy professor and one of the co-authors of "American Grace," on religion in America. The full interview delved into many more topics than there was time… Continue reading