Apr 16 Watch Goldman Sachs Could Face Sanctions, Fines After SEC Fraud Charge The SEC charged powerful investment bank Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors in the runup to the subprime mortgage crisis. Jim Lehrer talks to a Washington Post reporter about the charges. Continue watching
Apr 15 Full Video: Fla. Residents, Politicians Talk Taxes and Debt at Town Hall By News Desk TAMPA, Fla. | At a town hall meeting hosted by the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, residents of West Central Florida asked federal, state and local government officials about the recession, partisanship, government spending and more. You can now watch the full… Continue reading
Apr 15 A Reader's Guide to Tax Day Procrastinators take heed: it's tax day in the U.S. Here's hoping that you don't have a line at the post office in your future. But if you DO still need help figuring out your stimulus tax credit, are… Continue reading
Apr 15 Thursday: Tax Day; Obama to Outline Space Plan; Benjamin Hooks Dies at 85 By Jason Breslow Felipe Castro advertises tax preparation services in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.) It's April 15, which means, of course, it's tax day. The Big Money marks the occasion with a look at the five worst parts of… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch Tax Day Protests Highlight Discord Over Government Spending Tea Party activists across the country used Thursday's income tax filing deadline as a platform to voice disputes over the growth of government, while the Obama administration stressed the importance of tax-funded programs. Jim Lehrer reports. Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch What Drives Motivation in the Modern Workplace? As part of his ongoing coverage making sense of financial news, business and economics corespondent Paul Solman reports on what drives people's behavior in the modern workplace. Continue watching
Apr 14 Spotlight City: Tax Day Town Hall in Tampa All week in Tampa, we've been exploring what Americans think about their government, including reactions to the foreclosure crisis, health care reform, federal spending and more. A pivotal part of our coverage: a town hall meeting where local residents were… Continue reading
Apr 14 Should We 'Delink' the Economics Nobel from the Other Nobel Prizes? Question: Can you do a story on the fact that many Nobel Prize winners and other scientists are trying, along with Peter Nobel, descendant of Alfred Nobel, to get the Nobel Committee to delink the prize in economics from the… Continue reading
Apr 14 Obama Calls for More Control Over Financial Derivatives President Obama called Wednesday for more oversight of derivatives -- the financial products that helped sink insurance giant AIG -- when he met with Congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House to push for financial reform legislation. Continue reading
Apr 14 Quake Kills Hundreds in China; Bernanke to Testify on Economy A series of powerful earthquakes slammed western China early Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 in remote Qinghai Province. The largest quake to hit the mainly Tibetan region, which is mostly populated by farmers… Continue reading