Apr 06 Unemployment Rate Dips to 8.2% as 120,000 New Jobs Are Added in March A job seeker holds a job application during the San Francisco Hirevent job fair last month. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The online headlines sum up the just-released March unemployment numbers: "Job Growth Loses Steam," announced the Wall… Continue reading
Apr 06 Unemployment Rate Dips to 8.2% as 120,000 New Jobs Are Added in March A job seeker holds a job application during the San Francisco Hirevent job fair last month. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The online headlines sum up the just-released March unemployment numbers: "Job Growth Loses Steam," announced the Wall… Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch JOBS Act: Debating the Benefits for Startups, Risks for Investors JOBS Act: Debating the Benefits for Startups, Risks for Investors… Continue watching
Apr 05 A 'Bubble' Media Diet: The Daily Show, M*A*S*H and the PBS NewsHour? Jon Stewart interviews Adm. Mike Mullen during a 2010 "Daily Show" taping. Public domain photo via the U.S. Navy In Tuesday's post, which featured viewer emails responding to Charles Murray's bubble quiz, we published one from a… Continue reading
Apr 05 A 'Bubble' Media Diet: The Daily Show, M*A*S*H and the PBS NewsHour? Jon Stewart interviews Adm. Mike Mullen during a 2010 "Daily Show" taping. Public domain photo via the U.S. Navy In Tuesday's post, which featured viewer emails responding to Charles Murray's bubble quiz, we published one… Continue reading
Apr 04 Are Strategic Defaults the Housing Crisis' Culprit? Creative commons image courtesy of flickr user truliavisuals. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: Name: Tuba Gokcek Question: Strategic defaults… Continue reading
Apr 04 Are Strategic Defaults the Housing Crisis' Culprit? Creative commons image courtesy of flickr user truliavisuals. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: Name: Tuba Gokcek Question: Strategic defaults… Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch News Wrap: Internet Giant Yahoo to Lay Off 14 Percent of Staff In other news Wednesday, Internet giant Yahoo announced that it will lay off 2,000 employees as part of a plan to redeploy resources and boost revenues. Also, a barrage of tornadoes Tuesday damaged or destroyed 650 homes in Dallas and… Continue watching
Apr 03 Watch Why Auto Sales Surge Even as Gas Prices Rise Auto industry sales jumped 6 percent in March with almost 1.4 million new cars and trucks sold -- the highest number since 2008, according to new reports released Tuesday amid Detroit's $200 million deficit. Gwen Ifill and David Shepardson of… Continue watching
Apr 03 Your Thoughts on the Bubble Quiz Creative commons photo courtesy flickr user Smaku. A bevy of emails have inundated our inbox since we first posted Charles Murray's popular quiz, "Do You Live In a Bubble?" and its attempt to ascertain users' socio-economic status… Continue reading