Apr 27 Live-blogging the Goldman Hearing The Rundown is following the congressional subcommittee hearing on Goldman Sachs Tuesday and offering updates and insights from the NewsHour news desk and economics correspondent Paul Solman, as well as frequent NewsHour guest Simon Johnson and smart… Continue reading
Apr 27 Senate Panel Examines Mine Safety After Deadly W.Va. Explosion The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four… Continue reading
Apr 27 Live-blogging the Goldman Hearing Editor’s note: Paul is live-blogging the congressional subcommittee hearing on Goldman Sachs Tuesday. Read his comments here. Continue reading
Apr 27 Tuesday: Goldman CEO Set to Testify; Obama to Talk Economy in Midwest Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.) Lloyd Blankfein is about to have a very difficult Tuesday. With public anger toward the financial industry at a rolling boil and… Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch Goldman Sachs Denies Misleading Investors in Senate Committee Hearing Goldman Sachs executives testified before a Senate committee about whether it used a large hedge fund to bet against the complex financial instruments it was marketing to investors. Jeffrey Brown gets two views on the hearings from financial writers Roger… Continue watching
Apr 27 Watch Global Markets Rankle Over Greece's Deepening Debt Crisis Downgrades of Greece's debt rating to junk status sent markets tumbling in Europe and the U.S. Gwen Ifill talks to financial expert Eswar Prasad about the far-reaching effects of the European nation's economic crisis. Continue watching
Apr 27 Watch Senators Vilify Goldman Sachs, But Executives Deny Wrongdoing Executives of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs defended their conduct before and during the financial crisis, as senators on both sides of the aisle accused the investment firm of wreaking havoc on the economy. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Apr 26 Financial Reform Fails Key Test Vote in Senate Updated 6:22pm ET Senate Republicans on Monday blocked Democrats' attempt to begin debate on financial reform legislation, a widely expected early setback for the most sweeping overhaul of financial oversight since the Great Depression. The Senate, in a 57-41… Continue reading
Apr 26 Lincoln Memorial Pool, Other National Mall Sites Set for Stimulus Overhaul The National Mall draws more visitors each year than Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone national parks combined. Millions of people visit Washington, D.C., from all over the world to see the… Continue reading
Apr 26 Monday: Financial Reform Faces Key Vote; Gulf Oil Leak Could Last Months Still lacking a bipartisan agreement on financial reform, the Senate is bracing for a crucial test vote Monday over whether to begin debate on Democratic legislation to toughen the rules on Wall Street. Despite lingering GOP resistance, Democrats reached… Continue reading