Jan 05 Watch How the U.S. Auto Industry Picked Up Speed in 2011 With nearly 13 million cars sold, 2011 turned out to be the strongest year for Detroit's major automakers since the financial crisis hit in 2008. Margaret Warner discusses just how that 10 percent increase came to be with David Shepardson,… Continue watching
Jan 05 Could a Higher Import Tariff Pay for Medicare and Get the US Out of Debt? Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship at the Port of New Orleans in Louisiana. Photo by Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on… Continue reading
Jan 05 Could a Higher Import Tariff Pay for Medicare and Get the U.S. Out of Debt? Cargo containers sit stacked on a ship at the Port of New Orleans in Louisiana. Photo by Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Obama Sets Up for Showdown With GOP Over Consumer Protection Chief Cordray President Obama bypassed congressional Republicans Wednesday, naming Richard Cordray as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- setting up a potential constitutional showdown. Jeffrey Brown discusses the recess appointment with CQ Roll Call's David Hawkings and Binyamin Appelbaum… Continue watching
Jan 04 Laughing at Macroeconomics: A Cartoon Introduction By Elizabeth Shell, Paul Solman By Paul Solman and Elizabeth Shell Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates -- all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up comedian Yoram Bauman (who should… Continue reading
Jan 03 Should Our Economy Run Like a Cardiovascular System? Photo by RunPhoto via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: Paul Johnson, Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist and adjunct… Continue reading
Jan 03 Should Our Economy Run Like a Cardiovascular System? Photo by RunPhoto via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: Paul Johnson, Ph.D., cardiovascular physiologist and adjunct… Continue reading
Jan 03 Laughing at Macroeconomics: The Cartoon Introduction By Elizabeth Shell Unemployment, inflation, poverty, exchange rates, monetary policy - everything that makes economics the 'dismal science' is made laughing stock with the macroeconomics edition of Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein's "Cartoon Introduction to Economics."… Continue reading
Jan 02 Instead of 'Fairness' in the Tax System, Why Not Emphasize Results? Image by Spark Studio via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Ben Sands Question:… Continue reading
Jan 02 Instead of 'Fairness' in the Tax System, Why Not Emphasize Results? Image by Spark Studio via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Ben Sands Question:… Continue reading