Oct 27 Inside the AFL-CIO’s Health Care Lobbying Efforts By Business Desk Editor’s note: Tonight on the NewsHour, Paul profiles Richard Trumka, the newly elected president of the AFL-CIO, the labor federation representing 57 unions and 11.5 million… Continue reading
Oct 12 Battle of the Stand-Up Economists By Business Desk Paul Solman: The NewsHour and then the Business Desk were, so far as we know, the first national stages for the self-professed “world’s first and only stand-up economist,” Yoram Bauman. We have henceforth taken what might be… Continue reading
Oct 05 The Great Recession Through an Economist’s Walk to Work By Business Desk Editor’s note: Harvard economist Richard Freeman recently sent us a fascinating slide show he’d created of empty storefronts around the Boston area. We liked it so much that Paul sat down with Freeman a few days ago for an… Continue reading
Sep 30 Paul’s Full Interview with Pres. Lula da Silva By Business Desk Editor’s note: We were only able to air sections of Paul’s wide-ranging interview with Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the G-20 late last week. In the interest of letting viewers see Lula’s complete takes on global warming, the situation… Continue reading
Sep 29 Jeffrey Sachs on the New World Economic Order By Business Desk Paul Solman: When in Pittsburgh last week for the G-20 meetings, we interviewed Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, 23 years after our first interview with him. In all these years, Sachs has been a champion of both the verities… Continue reading
Sep 23 Joe Stiglitz on How the G-20 Should Tackle Global Financial Reform By Business Desk Editor’s note: Paul recently sat down with economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to talk about the financial reform agenda at the G-20 meetings that begin tomorrow in Pittsburgh. Beyond offering thoughts on just what the G-20 countries can… Continue reading
Sep 18 Lehman’s Lawyer on the Decision to Let It Fail By Business Desk Editor’s note: Paul also recently sat down with Harvey Miller, lawyer for Lehman Brothers during its descent into bankruptcy, for an insider’s look at what it was like meeting with government regulators as Lehman faced collapsed. Continue reading
Sep 18 Former Regulator on Lehman’s Collapse By Business Desk Editor’s note: Paul recently sat down with Robert Glauber, former Treasury undersecretary under George H.W. Bush and the leader of the taskforce under Reagan charged with reporting on the 1987 stock market crash, to discuss what Glauber would have… Continue reading
Sep 14 Reporting the Crisis By Business Desk Paul Solman: This week marks the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and one of the most extraordinarily tumultuous weeks Wall Street has ever had. So, in reflecting on those events and the subsequent year, I thought I’d offer… Continue reading
Sep 04 In a Difficult Job Market, Settling for Less By Business Desk Editor’s note: In a report that aired earlier this week about a Manhattan job fair, Paul spoke at length with Philip Mereday, a former executive who had been out of work for about a year. Mereday, a college graduate… Continue reading