Nov 10 At APEC Summit, Blending Economic Strategy and Ensemble By Larisa Epatko A week after Europe's economic woes dominated the G20 summit in France, a different collection of world leaders meet in Hawaii, where they hope to strengthen ties among Asia and the Pacific region's fast-growing markets, from China to Chile. Continue reading
Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? By Paul Solman Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I would really like… Continue reading
Nov 10 APEC Attire Through the Years By Larisa Epatko One of the traditions of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is a group photo in which world leaders don matching outfits from ponchos to pastel silk jackets. We display some of them here. Continue reading
Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch Italy’s Debt Dilemma: Too Big to Fail and Too Big to Rescue? Jeffrey Brown discusses Italy's rapidly escalating debt crisis and the implications for the rest of the Eurozone with Il Sole's Mario Calvo-Platero and Bloomberg-BusinessWeek's Roben Farzad. Continue watching
Nov 09 For the Love of Chinese Bread By Paul Solman // Economic analysis of a local, family-run bread bakery is the topic of the latest dispatch from Yoram Bauman, our temporary economist-in-residence in China. Using his improving (but still a bit limited) language skills and a visit to the… Continue reading
Nov 09 For the Love of Chinese Bread EmbedVideo(1942, 482, 304); An economic analysis of a local, family-run bread bakery is the topic of the latest dispatch from Yoram Bauman, our temporary economist-in-residence in China. Using his improving (but still a bit limited) language… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch For the Love of Chinese Bread Economic analysis of a bakery is the topic of this dispatch from Yoram Bauman in China. Continue watching
Nov 09 Italy’s Debt Rate Hits Record 7% Despite Word of Berlusconi Resignation By News Desk Roberto Maroni, Italy's interior minister, left, speaks with Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, during a voting session on last year's budget report inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images. One… Continue reading
Nov 08 Politics, Democracy, Anarchy – Does the World Owe Greece? A national flag of Greece flies outside the Greek stock exchange in Athens. Photo by Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In Greece last summer for the NewsHour, we interviewed a plain-spoken, candid economist named Manos Matsaganis. As… Continue reading