Feb 20 Watch Investors' Hopes for Turnaround Dim as Markets Plummet As fears over the economic crisis continue to erode investors' confidence, markets at home and abroad are feeling the effects. Financial analysts discuss how the markets relate to the realities of the economic turmoil. Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch Other News: New Details on Madoff, Clinton Tours Asia Accused Wall Street investor Bernard Madoff may not have bought securities for customers in 13 years, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for pragmatic diplomacy in China. Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch Stocks Markets Plummet Further in U.S. and Abroad Global markets sank and the Dow Jones industrial average sank to a six-year low on fears over bleak job reports and the fragile state of the economy. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Feb 20 Web Extras: Upside of the Downturn Editor’s Note: On Friday’s NewsHour, we aired another in our series of reports on making sense of the recession. The segment is about the “upside of the downturn,” which looks at the silver lining of the economic slump. Paul Solman:… Continue reading
Feb 20 World Markets Slide Over Ongoing Economic Woes By PBS News Hour Continuing concerns over the depth and breadth of the economic meltdown rippled through world markets Friday, pushing U.S. stocks to extend deep losses and sending overseas markets tumbling. Continue reading
Feb 20 Why Can't We Make Better Economic Predictions? Question/Comment: Why isn’t economics more of a science? I’ve seen pundits on TV say the Great Lesson of the Great Depression is to have jobs programs and get people back to work, but other pundits say the Depression would’ve been… Continue reading
Feb 19 In Case You Missed It: The Amazing Adventures of 'Savings Man' Paul Solman speaks to the founder of an organization funding creative public service ads on saving money. You can listen to the audio or read the transcript of the segment here. ]>… Continue reading
Feb 19 Web Extra: Finland's Unusual Take on the Recession And now for something almost completely different: an advertising campaign that urges consumers to SPEND their way out of the recession, instead of save their way through it. We ran a snippet of it… Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch The Amazing Adventures of 'Savings Man' In the latest of his series of reports on the financial crisis, Paul Solman speaks to the founder of an organization funding creative public service ads on saving money. Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch Public, Bankers, Analysts Debate Merits of Obama's Foreclosure Plan Reaction in the banking world and among the public to President Barack Obama's plan to ease home foreclosures has proven mixed. Analysts debate the plan's merits and examine what the measure may mean for homeowners and lenders. Continue watching