Jul 27 Watch How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying Is the aptitude for business (the legal kind) distributed among convicted criminals as it is in the general population? One seasoned executive thinks so, and believes that by hiring the cream of the ex-con crop, his company will have a… Continue watching
Jul 27 China's Communism and Capitalism: The New Yin Yang? By Paul Solman The short third installment of Yoram Bauman's vlog from China is well worth the watching, highlighting the tension between the "official" China and what's really going on there. Communist Party founder Mao AND $300,000 Porsche's? Yoram asks. "Do… Continue reading
Jul 27 China's Communism and Capitalism: The New Yin Yang? By Paul Solman The short third installment of Yoram Bauman's vlog from China is well worth the watching, highlighting the tension between the "official" China and what's really going on there. Communist Party founder Mao AND $300,000 Porsches? Yoram asks. "Do… Continue reading
Jul 27 Boehner Heads Back to the Drawing Board as His Debt Plan Hits Snag A vote on Speaker John Boehner's debt plan was delayed after the CBO said it would save less than advertised. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. House Speaker John Boehner was already having trouble with his right flank in… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting convicts through… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch Study: Housing Bust Hit U.S. Minority Households Especially Hard As the economy struggles to rebound, a new analysis of Census data shows a widening wealth gap among white, black and Hispanic Americans. Gwen Ifill discusses the results of a new study with the Pew Research Center's Paul Taylor and… Continue watching
Jul 26 Can the Boehner Plan Pass? Update, 3 p.m. ET | According to a just-released statement, "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of the amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 627. If S. 627 is presented to the President, the… Continue reading
Jul 26 The 'Bond Vigilantes' and the Debt Ceiling Crisis: No Need to Panic or Lying in Wait? By Paul Solman Harvard's eminent trade economist, Robert Lawrence, gave a talk in Greece this month. Among his slides was this image with the headline: "The Vigilantes are Asleep!" Slide image courtesy of Robert Lawrence. That would be the so-called "bond vigilantes"… Continue reading
Jul 26 The 'Bond Vigilantes' and the Debt Ceiling Crisis: No Need to Panic or Lying in Wait? Harvard's eminent trade economist, Robert Lawrence, gave a talk in Greece this month. Among his slides was this image with the headline: "The Vigilantes are Asleep!" Slide image courtesy of Robert Lawrence. That would be the so-called "bond… Continue reading
Jul 26 No Deal in Sight After President Obama, Speaker Boehner Address Nation President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner address the nation. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, both delivered primetime television addresses to the nation Monday night appealing to the American people to see it their way… Continue reading