Oct 13 President Signs Bill Aimed at Limiting Online Gambling By PBS News Hour The newly approved Safe Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006, which President Bush signed Friday, included a provision aimed at closing the doors of many of the over 2,500 online gambling casino web sites operating in the United States. Continue reading
Oct 12 Bangladesh Financial Pioneer Awarded Nobel Peace Prize By PBS News Hour Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their use of micro-credit loans to alleviate poverty in his home country. Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Essayist Discusses Housing ‘Bubble’ Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming gives her perspective on the current real estate market. Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch Google Pays $1.65 Billion for Popular Video Web Site YouTube Google announced this week that it will pay $1.65 billion in stock for the popular video repository and search engine YouTube. Technology and financial analysts discuss the implications of the ground-breaking deal for the future of the Internet. Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Job Market Weak But Other Economic Indicators Appear Healthy While other economic indicators remain positive, the number of new jobs created in September was the lowest in almost a year and much fewer than predicted. Two former Labor Department chief economists decipher the mixed signals and the health of… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch Authors Debate Effects of Globalization on Society As more U.S. jobs are shipped overseas, Americans grow worried over job security and worker rights. Authors Thomas Friedman and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., discuss opposing views on the globalization of the economy and its both beneficial and harmful effects. Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch Hewlett-Packard Officials Testify on Probe into Media Leaks Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd and former Chairwoman Patricia Dunn testified in the House Thursday on the company's possibly illegal tactics when investigating media leaks. Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch Stock Market High, Dropping Gas Prices Signal Possible Economic Boom Dropping gas prices and a peaking stock market have created hopes for an economic turnaround, yet housing sales continue to fall. Financial experts decode the mixed economic signals. Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch Officials Investigate CEOs in Stock Options Scandals The NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the stock scandals embroiling a number of companies and explains how stock option scams work. Continue watching
Sep 26 Former Enron CFO Fastow Sentenced to Six Years in Prison By PBS News Hour Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, 44, was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday, more than two years after he pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy for his involvement in the energy company's 2001 collapse. Continue reading