Jul 19 The Morning Line: Obama Keeps Jobless Benefits in Spotlight By David Chalian -- President Obama takes to the Rose Garden at 10:30 a.m. ET to continue his push for an extension of unemployment benefits for approximately 2 million long-term unemployed Americans. Just as he hammered away at Republicans in the Senate in… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch What Will Financial Reform Mean for the Poorest? With President Obama set to sign financial reform legislation, much of the attention has been on the biggest U.S. banks lately. But what about lending practices that affect the poorest Americans? Hari Sreenivsan discusses the "poverty industry" with "Broke, USA"… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch Will Greek Austerity Plans Buckle Under Pressure? As part of his ongoing reporting on Making Sense for financial news, Paul Solman examines -- with some country and western flair -- how Greece's debt woes began and what's being done to contain the problems from spreading throughout Europe… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch Jobless Benefits Face Another Vote: Weighing Benefits vs. Deficit After two failed attempts, an extension of unemployment benefits is up for yet another vote Tuesday in the Senate. Jeffery Brown speaks with Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian for more. Continue watching
Jul 18 BP Says It Plans to Keep Well Cap Closed; Gulf Leak Ticker Stays Paused By News Desk A Transocean Ltd. Development Driller III rig works to drill a relief well to plug the damaged Macondo well; Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated 12:46 p.m. ET | BP said Sunday morning that tests on a 75-ton… Continue reading
Jul 17 Oil Well Testing to Continue for Additional 24 Hours By Maureen Hoch After two days of waiting and watching as a containment cap kept new oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since a spill disaster began, officials decided Saturday to extend a test on BP's… Continue reading
Jul 16 Shields and Brooks on Jobs, Palin and Deeper Meaning of Old Spice Ads By Hari Sreenivasan Even after the Senate's passage of a landmark financial reform bill, Mark Shields and David Brooks tell us about how difficult a sell Democrats and the administration face with voters as the midterm elections draw closer yet unemployment remains… Continue reading
Jul 16 For Fishermen on Louisiana's Coast, Guarded Optimism on an Oil Fix By Tom Bearden Out-of-work fishermen do maintenance on their boats at the Delta Marina in Empire, La. "At least we're taking more oil out of the Gulf than is going in," says Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish. Cautiously optimistic. Pleased, but guarded. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed By Travis Daub In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a… Continue reading
Jul 16 What Lesson Should We Take From Ireland's Austerity Experience? Question: What lesson should we take from the experience of Ireland in attempting to take the path of austerity to bolster its economy. Why is the world hearkening back to Herbert Hoover economics? I hope your current series on the… Continue reading