Sep 19 Obama Calls for New Taxes on Wealthy in $3 Trillion Deficit Reduction Plan By David Chalian President Obama will call for $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of plan to find more than $3 trillion in savings. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. If you're one of our many readers who had hoped the toxicity of… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Full Video: Obama Details Plan to Cut Deficit by $3 Trillion EmbedVideo(1551, 482, 304); Updated 12:16 p.m. ET President Obama will detail his plan for deficit reduction in a speech in the White House Rose Garden at 10:30 a.m. ET. Watch his remarks live here on the… Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Europe Struggles to Craft Debt Solution, Amid Prodding From U.S. In Wroclaw, Poland on Friday, European Union economic leaders gathered to discuss the economic crisis facing Europe. Jeffrey Brown discusses what's next for the eurozone with The Economist Magazine's Zanny Minton Beddoes. Continue watching
Sep 16 Does the U.S. Need Full Employment? And Other Questions EmbedVideo(1393, 514, 320); Watch 'Can America's Jobless Fill America's Jobs?' Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: The flood of… Continue reading
Sep 16 Does the U.S. Need Full Employment? And Other Questions By Paul Solman // Watch 'Can America's Jobless Fill America's Jobs?' Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: The flood of responses to our… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch Dem Senator Suggests Obama Jobs Plan Won't Pass in Full House Speaker John Boehner offered his first major response to President Obama's new American Jobs Act in a speech Thursday. Jeffrey Brown discusses the politics of job creation with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. Continue watching
Sep 15 How Badly are Fear, Finite Resources Hurting the U.S.? Image of hazard symbols for weapons of mass destruction -- radiation, biological and deadly -- by Wikimedia user Fastfission via Wikimedia Commons. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days… Continue reading
Sep 15 How Badly are Fear, Finite Resources Hurting the U.S.? Image of hazard symbols for weapons of mass destruction -- radiation, biological and deadly -- by Wikimedia user Fastfission via Wikimedia Commons. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days… Continue reading
Sep 15 Speaker Boehner to Present GOP's Economic Fixes By David Chalian House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is set to present the House GOP's "Plan for America's Job Creators." File photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call. One week after President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,… Continue reading
Sep 15 Sarkozy, Cameron Visit Libya; UBS Trader Responsible for $2 Billion Loss By News Desk French president Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Tripoli on Thursday to meet with leaders of the National Transitional Council. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the group's senior leader, praised their "brave positions" in the early days of… Continue reading