Jun 10 Paul Solman: How Do Oil Imports and 'Oil Independence' Intersect? By Paul Solman This entry is cross-posted on the Business Desk blog, where economics correspondent Paul Solman answers your questions on economic news. Question: I'm befuddled by the "oil independence" movement that is neatly summarized by the slogan "drill baby drill." This… Continue reading
Jun 10 Is Oil Drilling in the U.S. Necessary for 'Oil Independence'? Question: I’m befuddled by the “oil independence” movement that is neatly summarized by the slogan “drill baby drill.” This somehow tries to persuade the nation that foreign oil is the enemy. I believe that the vast majority of our foreign… Continue reading
Jun 10 Watch News Wrap: Army Admits Mismanagement at Arlington Cemetery In other news Thursday, a report indicated that some of the nation's military dead may have been misidentified or misplaced at Arlington National Cemetery, and an American servicemember was killed in Afghanistan, marking the 20th U.S. death there this month. Continue watching
Jun 09 Economics and Emily Dickinson Paul Solman: As longtime viewers of the NewsHour may recall, our economics team has very occasionally ventured off the beaten beat to cover other issues. When headed to New York last week for an upcoming story, we found ourselves within… Continue reading
Jun 09 In Tuesday's Primaries, Three Messages From Three States By Dante Chinni _pap_embed_custom('news01s4071qed4',482,304,""); If you are looking for a unified theme out of Tuesday's round of primaries, good luck. In states holding the biggest votes of the night there were decidedly different storylines and lessons. The tea party movement had… Continue reading
Jun 09 Should We Invest in Retraining American Workers Affected by Globalization? Question: Paul, with all the concern about stagnant or declining wages in the U.S., has anyone pointed out that wages in other parts of the world are rising? Is there no joy for them? Isn’t the relevant question in a… Continue reading
Jun 09 On the Gulf Coast, Media Access Can Be Hard to Come By Updated 5:20pm ET BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles issued this letter on media access Wednesday. In the statement, Suttles says "BP fully supports and defends all individuals rights to share their personal thoughts and experiences with journalists… Continue reading
Jun 09 Containment Cap Collects Slightly More Oil; BP Looks to Boost Capacity Click image for larger view. BP's oil containment system captured about 15,000 barrels (630,000 gallons) of oil Tuesday, up slightly from the 14,800 barrels collected Monday, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news briefing Wednesday. Continue reading
Jun 08 An Update on Out-of-work Executives Paul Solman: Last summer, we did one of our favorite stories — “favorite” in the sense that it really taught us something about the grim state of the job market in the throes of the Great Recession, and the… Continue reading
Jun 07 Positive Signs in the Housing Market? Tamp Down That Excitement By Dante Chinni Measuring the health of the U.S. economy continues to be a dodgy game. Witness last week's job numbers that were nowhere as good as many had hoped. But a more complicated measure of improvement may be the U.S. housing… Continue reading