Aug 17 Sweden’s Super-Duper Rich EmbedVideo(1266, 514, 320); Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of… Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden’s Super-Duper Rich By Paul Solman // Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic… Continue reading
Aug 17 Campus and Careers Counties Brace for Potential Debt-Ceiling Deal Fallout University of Michigan School of Dentistry graduates take an oath to uphold high professional standards at a May graduation ceremony in Ann Arbor -- a Campus and Careers county type; Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr.com/umdent In the two… Continue reading
Aug 17 President Obama to Present Jobs Plan in Post-Labor Day Speech By David Chalian President Obama feeds the press as he walks out of Kernel Cody's Popcorn Shoppe in LeClaire, Iowa. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. In addition to flooding the airwaves and newspapers with images of President Obama in the heartland hearing from… Continue reading
Aug 17 European Markets Jittery Despite Debt Talks, Vice President Biden Visits China Despite Tuesday's meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European markets fell Wednesday amid concerns over sovereign debt crises and the euro. The market dropped sharply, but London's FTSE 100 index closed down 0.5 percent at… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Google’s Motorola Deal Promises to Shake Up Mobile Technology Industry Google announced plans this week to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. In recent years the Internet giant has made big plays in the smartphone market through its Android platform. Jeffrey Brown discusses the ramifications of the pending deal with… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch ‘No Clear Path Forward’ for Eurozone as Economic Woes Continue A new report out Tuesday showed overall growth in 17 eurozone countries increased just two-tenths of a percent in the second quarter. Judy Woodruff discusses what Europe's crisis means for the world with George Washington University's Scheherazade Rehman and the… Continue watching
Aug 16 Europe’s Largest Economies Work to Address Crisis By Larisa Epatko German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Tuesday in Paris to come up with a joint strategy on addressing fears about the euro currency. Their meeting was notable for what didn't come out of it for as… Continue reading
Aug 16 Europe’s Stuttering Economy With the eurozone in such obvious economic turmoil, we turn to former chief IMF economist and longtime friend and favorite of Making Sen$e, Simon Johnson (Peterson Institute, MIT). We asked him a series of pressing questions: Paul Solman:… Continue reading