May 24 NewsHour Plus | This Week In Space: Atlantis, Armstrong, Space X By Hari Sreenivasan Miles O'Brien joins us again on The Rundown to talk about the last mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the rarity of Neil Armstrong's recent public testimony on the direction of the space program's future, and… Continue reading
May 24 Monday: Frustration at BP Growing; South Korea Cuts Off Trade With North A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Efforts to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a step backward over the weekend. On… Continue reading
May 24 Watch News Wrap: Afghanistan Tops Iraq in Total U.S. Troop Presence In other news Monday, the U.S. military announced that its forces serving in Afghanistan are now larger than those serving in Iraq. Also, a state of emergency was declared in parts of Jamaica following gun battles with a drug gang… Continue watching
May 21 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak By Lea Winerman Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that… Continue reading
May 21 How Do Hedge Funds Work? Question: How do hedge funds work? How do investors gain money from betting on losses? Paul Solman: One way is to borrow an asset like a stock from a broker and promptly sell it, betting it will go down in… Continue reading
May 21 The Life and (Eventual) Death of Toxie, Planet Money's Toxic Asset By Dante Chinni Foreclosures and interest rates are just numbers. Sometimes the best way to examine an economic meltdown is to jump into it with abandon, to witness the carnage up close. In a sense, that's what NPR's Planet Money reporting team… Continue reading
May 21 Friday: Senate Passes Financial Reform; Clinton Condemns North Korea Legislators and policymakers alike are reacting to the Senate's move on Thursday to approve the most sweeping rewrite of financial regulation since the Great Depression, legislation designed to shield the economy from repeating the crisis that since 2008 has left… Continue reading
May 21 Video: Live Feed of Oil Leak Released, BP Raises Siphoning Estimate By Jason Breslow UPDATE: 1:27 a.m. ET Friday BP has posted a new live stream shown below. This stream is intermittent, and requires Windows Media Player. (updated 6/8/2010 with Ustream.tv feed of the spill.)… Continue reading
May 21 Reconciling House and Senate Financial Reform Congressional leaders have vowed to hammer out the differences between the Senate and House financial reform bills before July 4. Continue reading
May 21 Watch Financial Reform Overhaul on Fast Track to Passage A sweeping reform of the nation's financial regulatory system passed a key vote before the Senate late Thursday, fast-tracking a final vote on the overhauls. Judy Woodruff reports on the process to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the… Continue watching