Dec 22 Tuesday’s Headlines: Bankers Meet With Obama; Health Bill Inches Forward President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with representatives of a dozen small and community banks at the White House in a follow-up to a similar meeting he held last week with some of the nation's top bankers. Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch For Community Banks, Survival Can Often Trump Lending President Obama met with community bank leaders at the White House on Tuesday and pressed them to boost lending. Yet in a year in which some 140 community banks have been forced to close, the focus among small lenders is… Continue watching
Dec 21 What Will It Take to Jumpstart Job Creation? Question: It seems to be fairly well accepted that the military build-up for WWII was what finally brought us out of the Great Depression. Is there any movement afoot for the government to effectively… Continue reading
Dec 18 On Friday’s NewsHour… The agreement reached at the Copenhagen Climate Summit is our lead story tonight, followed by an interview with Barry Scheck of the "Innocence Project" about the release of a wrongly-convicted man after 35 years, a Paul Solman conversation about the… Continue reading
Dec 18 Will ‘Avatar’ Take-off at the Box Office? By Molly Finnegan Opening Friday nationwide is James Cameron’s latest epic cinematic and technical feat. “Avatar,” a digital 3-D action adventure movie about human colonization of a distant moon already occupied by a race of blue aliens. Costing nearly $400 million for production… Continue reading
Dec 18 Samuelson on Worth Paul Solman: All week, we’ve been posting transcripts of past conversations with the late economist Paul Samuelson. Below, Samuelson on calculating worth. Continue reading
Dec 17 The Year Ahead: What’s the Economic Indicator to Watch? Paul Solman: More in our look this week at The Economic Year Ahead. Today: What’s the economic indicator to watch in 2010? Again, as you’ve come to expect from the NewsHour, a divergence of views. Not that Robert Shiller… Continue reading
Dec 17 Debating the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes By Business Desk Editor’s note: Last night on the NewsHour, we had a look at the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, using as our vehicle an amusing rap song about the legendary economist and thinker. We’d hoped to have the full-fledged… Continue reading
Dec 17 Samuelson on Consumer Surplus Paul Solman: Today’s Paul Samuelson excerpt explains the concept of “consumer surplus.” See the other transcripts we posted this week on the basics of economics here and here.) To Samuelson, it was the justification for the market system. Continue reading
Dec 17 Making Sen$e of 2010: Indicators to Watch By Carolyn O'Hara As the end of a tumultuous economic year approaches, the PBS NewsHour asked several economists and financial experts to look ahead to 2010 and answer one question: What is the economic indicator to watch and why?… Continue reading