Oct 10 Watch News Wrap: Americans Win Nobel for Economic Growth, Inflation Research In other news Monday, two Americans won the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent were honored for their work in the 1970s and '80s on how government policies can affect economic growth and inflation. Also, Syrian… Continue watching
Oct 10 In Wake of Qwikster’s Hasty Death, Netflix Faces Questions of Its Own Can you declare a company dead if it never actually began doing business? It's a slightly existential question one might pose to those who would have run Qwikster, the DVD-by-mail business that Netflix said it was launching just… Continue reading
Oct 10 Leather Muppet to Stephen Colbert: You Are What You Eat Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query. Update: the 'Colbert Report Retort' was named a 2012 Webby Award Nominee for online… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Leather Muppet to Stephen Colbert: You Are What You Eat Paul Solman had a 'transformative' experience after Stephen Colbert poked fun at him. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch W, V, U or L: How Is the Economic Recovery Shaping Up, Literally? The latest unemployment figures out Friday reinforce the notion that the U.S. economy remains weak when compared to recoveries of the past. As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman visits with economist Simon Johnson… Continue watching
Oct 07 Latest Unemployment Figures Show More Americans Working Part-Time, Looking for Full-Time Jobs Well, interestingly good news on the jobs front, it would appear. Again, the proviso: Don't take any given month's unemployment numbers too seriously. But that said, according to the "establishment survey" of places that hire, the… Continue reading
Oct 07 Latest Unemployment Figures Show More Americans Working Part-Time, Looking for Full-Time Jobs Well, interestingly good news on the jobs front, it would appear. Again, the proviso: Don't take any given month's unemployment numbers too seriously. But that said, according to the "establishment survey" of places that hire, the… Continue reading
Oct 06 Steve Jobs in 1985: Apple Has ‘Common Vision’ on Changing the World Upon the death of Steve Jobs, we dipped into the NewsHour's video vault for past coverage of Apple and Jobs. We uncovered this 1985 piece by Elizabeth Brackett that captures a tumultuous time in the company's history. In… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Give Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporate Culture Budding Wall Street Movement Gives Voice to Anger Over Greed, Corporations 2166052763… Continue watching
Oct 05 Apple’s Steve Jobs Dies at Age 56 Updated 8:53 p.m. ET Apple said in a brief statement late Wednesday that company co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died. Jobs, 56, has been suffering from pancreatic cancer and has been on medical leave for an… Continue reading