Aug 20 How Local Businesses Coexist with Wal-Mart By Larisa Epatko Although Wal-Mart has gained a reputation for driving out mom-and-pop stores, the city of Charlottesville, Va. represents an example of how homegrown stores and the retail giant can coexist. Continue reading
Aug 20 Is Wal-Mart Unique? By PBS News Hour Though Wal-Mart's low-price, low-wage, globally sourced model is not necessarily unique in the retail industry, the Arkansas-based company has become the most powerful retailer in the world. Continue reading
Aug 20 Challenging Wal-Mart By PBS News Hour In a small town north of Salt Lake City, Utah, a modern range war is being fought along the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Continue reading
Aug 20 Biography: Sam Walton By PBS News Hour A man of modest beginnings, Sam Walton built the Wal-Mart empire into the number one retailer in the world on a simple, but groundbreaking rule, cut all excess costs and sell low. Continue reading
Aug 20 Wal-Mart: Pop Culture Gatekeeper? By PBS News Hour As the nation's largest retailer of American pop music, Wal-Mart wields significant influence over the recording industry, artistic creation and consumer choices. Continue reading
Aug 20 Watch Wal-Mart the Global Giant Paul Solman examines Wal-Mart's distribution system and its productivity. Current employees explain how Wal-Mart operates, while some former associates share their discontent with the United States' largest private employer. Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Techonology May Play Role in U.S. Job Development Many investors and economists remain unsure about the role of new technology in the development of new jobs and the outsourcing of old ones. Some experts talk about what changes they expect in the U.S. labor market. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Oil Prices Ease Slightly After Hitting Record Highs Oil prices eased slightly lower Wednesday after hitting a new high Tuesday of $45.04 per barrel. Jeffrey Brown discusses the recent rise in oil prices and the factors that impact those prices with Robert Leiber, a professor of government and… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch Job Numbers Spark Questions of Economic Growth The latest employment numbers indicated that job growth continues to trail behind the growth of the overall economy. These statistics have caused some to question the strength of the economic recovery. Two economists assess the situation. Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch IMF Managing Director Discusses Organization’s Role The International Monetary Fund has intervened in dozens of economic crises in the past decade and its help has drawn both praise and criticism. Paul Solman speaks with Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, managing director of the IMF, about the… Continue watching