Oct 14 How Does Chinese Currency Hurt U.S. Debt? Name: Brian P. Question: There has been a lot of talk recently about China's currency devaluation and how it hurts the U.S. economy's recovery by making our exports less competitive. Mostly it sounds like we simply beg China to stop. Continue reading
Oct 14 Chile Rescue Operation Ends; Foreclosures Set New Record People celebrate in Santiago after the last of the 33 miners was rescued (JORGE AMENGUAL/AFP/Getty Images) Less than 24 hours after the rescue operation began, the last of the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch 'California Is a Place' Still Reeling From Recession Filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zack Canepari looked at California foreclosures through a different lens by concentrating on the crisis in some off-beat places. Continue watching
Oct 13 How Many Wind Farms Are in the Works for the U.S.? Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that it will invest in an enormous new project to build an undersea transmission line off the mid-Atlantic coast that could bring energy from offshore wind farms to as many as 1.9 million… Continue reading
Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions on 'American Grace' By Paul Solman UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday's NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of "Bowling Alone" fame about his massive new study of religion, six years in… Continue reading
Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday’s NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of ‘Bowling Alone’ fame about his… Continue reading
Oct 13 States Open Foreclosure Investigation; Court to Hear DNA Evidence Case Updated 1:00pm ET All 50 states have joined the joint investigation into the mortgage industry. Here's a statement from the National Association of Attorneys General. Posted 10:30 a.m. ET A group of 40 state attorneys general is set… Continue reading
Oct 12 More From Robert Putnam on 'American Grace' By Elizabeth Shell // On Monday's broadcast, correspondent Paul Solman interviewed Robert Putnam, a Harvard public policy professor and one of the co-authors of "American Grace," on religion in America. The full interview delved into many more topics than there was time… Continue reading
Oct 12 Ban Lifted on Deep Water Oil Drilling By Maureen Hoch The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on deep water oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration has been under pressure from business leaders and others… Continue reading
Oct 12 This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Skeptics and Supporters A few words about the Nobel Prize in economics and this year’s winners. First, the skeptics. They are eager to point out that the prize in economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory… Continue reading