Jul 25 No Debt Deal in Sight as Leaders Propose Rival Plans House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives at the Capitol on Sunday. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Congressional leaders and President Obama aren't closer to a deal on raising the debt limit Monday morning after talks collapsed late Friday… Continue reading
Jul 22 The People's Choice: Australia Once again, the Making Sen$e audience has spoken. Once again, the results are lopsided. Recently, we polled you on my hat(s): "great" or "goofy"? You accentuated the positive, latched onto the affirmative, and chose "great" over "goofy"… Continue reading
Jul 22 Democrats Unhappy Over Possible Obama-Boehner Deal Focused on Cuts A deal focusing on cuts, with increased revenues in the future, is not sitting well with Democrats. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. All the reporting Friday morning suggests that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner… Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch Borders Closes the Book as Decisions Come Back to Haunt Chain On Thursday, representatives of the Borders bookstore chain were in court with a plan to liquidate its remaining 399 locations as early as Friday. Jeffrey Brown discusses what's next for bookstores, the publishing industry and bookworms with Slate's Annie Lowrey. Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch News Wrap: Eurozone, IMF Agree to Second Greek Bailout of $155B In other news Thursday, leaders of the Eurozone nations agreed to give Greece a second bailout worth $155 billion. The International Monetary Fund and private investors would join the package to the tune of $53 billion. In Syria, activists said… Continue watching
Jul 21 Dodd-Frank Law at 1: a Progress Report President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on July 21, 2010; Getty Images file photo Depending on your opinion, the Dodd-Frank financial reform law which President Obama signed last year, has been… Continue reading
Jul 21 Is the 'Pain At the Pump' Fair? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query:… Continue reading
Jul 21 President Obama Open to Short-term Increase in Debt Ceiling President Obama would only accept a stop-gap measure of "a few days." White House photo. With negotiators running out of time to raise the country's borrowing limit, President Obama signaled Wednesday he would be willing to accept a… Continue reading
Jul 20 Is Flogging a Better Option Than Prison? German soldiers flog a Russian villager while fellow villagers are forced to watch. This photograph was found on a dead German soldier. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A new book by Peter Moskos is as provocative in name as… Continue reading
Jul 20 Is Flogging a Better Option than Prison? German soldiers flog a Russian villager while fellow villagers are forced to watch. This photograph was found on a dead German soldier. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A new book by Peter Moskos is as provocative in name as… Continue reading