Oct 15 Bernanke Suggests Fed Will Do More to Spur Economy; Chilean Miners Begin to Head Home Stock futures jumped after a much-anticipated speech by Ben Bernanke Friday morning, in which the Fed chairman indicated that the central bank may need to do more to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment. "There would appear -- all… Continue reading
Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Questions Editor’s note: On the broadcast last night was the first in a series on the foreclosure debacle. In Show Me the Mortgage, Paul Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of foreclosure… Continue reading
Oct 14 Why We're Looking at Foreclosures By Paul Solman On Thursday's NewsHour, we have the first in a series of stories on foreclosures. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes these stories are taking:… Continue reading
Oct 14 Why We're Looking at Foreclosures On tonight's program, we covered the foreclosure story, which is morphing as I write. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes it's taking: Evicted… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Faulty Paperwork Prompts Deepening Foreclosure Problem Foreclosures are mounting and attorneys general have launched an investigation into claims of faulty lender paperwork. Paul Solman reports. Continue watching
Oct 14 How Does Chinese Currency Hurt U.S. Debt? By Paul Solman 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: Name: Brian P. City and State: Madison, WI. Question: There has been… Continue reading
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