Jul 01 Watch Despite BP Spill, Brazil Pushes Forward With Oil Drilling Boom In a report from Brazil, Margaret Warner examines how the country is pursuing deepwater oil drilling even as the Gulf of Mexico spill raises new environmental concerns about the risks involved. Continue watching
Jun 30 How Will the Unequal Distribution of Wealth in the U.S. Affect Economic Recovery? Question: If the USA has the largest unequal distribution of wealth of any industrial nation, what will this do for the recovery? Paul Solman: Intriguing question. There are those who argue that the crisis… Continue reading
Jun 30 Ask BP Exec Bob Dudley Your Questions for a Live Interview Thursday By News Desk On July 1 at 3:30 p.m. ET, senior correspondent Ray Suarez will moderate a live Q&A session between BP's Bob Dudley, the executive now in charge of the company's oil leak response, and you. Google, YouTube and the… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch News Wrap: House Passes Financial Reform; Senate Vote Pending In other news Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a compromise on a federal regulatory reform bill after a $19 billion fee on large banks and hedge funds was dropped from the legislation. Also, a former top executive at AIG… Continue watching
Jun 30 In Reporting on Oil Spill, Limits Persist on Media Access in the Gulf By Bridget Desimone Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser and I spent last week reporting the health impact of the oil spill in Plaquemines Parish -- Louisiana's southernmost parish, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. During that time… Continue reading
Jun 29 Democrats Adjust Financial Reform Bill in Bid to Pick Up Votes After losing critical votes on financial reform legislation, Democrats scrambled late Tuesday to win over a handful of Republican votes by taking the unusual step of re-opening a conference committee meeting and changing how the costs of the bill… Continue reading
Jun 29 Google Stops Redirect for Chinese Users In an effort to keep its license to operate in China, Google will stop automatically rerouting mainland China users to an uncensored version of its search engine, the company announced late Monday. Under the previous configuration google.cn users… Continue reading
Jun 29 Web Extra: Taleb and Roubini on Government Intervention Paul Solman: While we were interviewing America’s two most prominent doomsters a few weeks ago, Nassim “Black Swan” Taleb and Nouriel “housing crisis” Roubini, the two got into an argument. It was friendly enough — they admire each other —… Continue reading
Jun 29 Nassim Taleb Answers Viewer Questions Editor’s Note: Last week, we aired an interview with economists Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini. Afterward, the two agreed to answer some viewer questions on this site. Unfortunately, due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, Nouriel Roubini was unable… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch News Wrap: Stocks Plunge Over Consumer Confidence Concerns In other news Tuesday, Wall Street dropped following a wave of new worries about consumer spending and overseas sell-offs. Also, President Barack Obama voiced confidence about the fate of the financial regulatory reform bill even without the vote of late… Continue watching