Oct 15 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: Stop treating budget matters with crisis-driven politics By Anne Azzi Davenport Following the briefing, Gwen Ifill sat down with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Office of Management Budget Director Shaun Donovan to talk about the deficit, why it's grown smaller and its potential growth in the years to come. Continue reading
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Oct 15 Stock market shows massive losses By News Desk The stock market declined sharply Wednesday afternoon, with all three major indexes now experiencing dips that put them into negative territory for the year. Continue reading
Oct 15 Medicare’s open enrollment period is health care’s Groundhog Day By Philip Moeller Wednesday marks the beginning of the open enrollment period for Medicare. In his debut column on Making Sen$e, Philip Moeller, our "Medicare Maven," tells you what you need to know and invites your questions. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch What Wall Street’s wild swings say about the global economy By PBS News Hour Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is… Continue watching
Oct 14 Can’t stand your spouse? Here’s a secret about collecting divorcée Social Security benefits By Laurence Kotlikoff You may not need to be married for the full 10 years usually required to collect divorcée Social Security benefits. With the help of former Social Security technical expert, Larry Kotlikoff explains how eight years could do the trick. Continue reading
Oct 13 Jean Tirole? Why did he receive the Nobel Prize in economics? By Simone Pathe Jean Tirole, of the University of Toulouse, France, won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for his work on markets and regulation. Although his name might not be well-known in the U.S., his work has been recognized as some of… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 11, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 11, new screening procedures at major American airports as officials try to contain Ebola. The nation's top infectious disease expert joins us for more. Later, what's behind the stock market's sudden turmoil? And, from… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch What’s behind the stock market’s sudden turmoil? By PBS News Hour After a long climb, the stock market suffered its biggest losses this past week in two and a half years. To help us understand the forces behind the sudden drop, Roben Farzad joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Richmond, Virginia. Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch The new ‘sharing economy’ can enrich micro-entrepreneurs but at what cost? By Justin Scuiletti, PBS News Hour Continue watching