Jan 09 Watch 6:02 Does a stronger economy mean higher interest rates in 2015? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 09 Why we need to liberate America's health care By Robert Graboyes Health care in America will never improve if we don't change the conversation about what's wrong, argues Mercatus Center's Robert Graboyes. Politicians on both sides of the aisle, he says, fight about coverage instead of opening up the channels of… Continue reading
Jan 09 We're adding jobs like it's 1999, but American workers just can't get a raise By Simone Pathe The final unemployment report of 2014, released Friday morning, ended a solid year of payroll gains. But despite December's additional 252,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate since 2008, wages aren't rising. In fact, average hourly earnings fell in December,… Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 9:21 Can teaching kids to resist the marshmallow help pave the way to success? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 08 This South Bronx kid would have failed the marshmallow test. So how did he get into Yale? By Simone Pathe The marshmallow test is famous: Give a kid a marshmallow and see if he or she can show enough self-control to hold off eating it and, as a reward, enjoy a second. Its results have often be viewed as fatalistic… Continue reading
Jan 07 Getting your hands around slithery COBRA coverage By Philip Moeller Workers who lose their jobs may have the option of continuing their employer group health insurance for a limited time under what's known as COBRA. But how does that coverage interact with Medicare and the Affordable Care Act? Making Sen$e… Continue reading
Jan 06 Social Security 101: Don't count on dying on time By Laurence Kotlikoff Just because your parents didn't live beyond a certain age, doesn't mean that you shouldn't plan on doing so, either. The assumption that you'll need more money later for retirement should guide all of your Social Security collection decisions, especially… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch 1:56 Eyes on Greek instability as euro plunges to nine-year low - Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch 6:27 Will falling euro end up boosting Europe's economy? - Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 05 Why we think the way we do about men, women and work By Mukesh Eswaran Should women work outside the home? Are they more competitive than men? Our attitudes toward these questions are invariably conditioned by social norms. That's why, argues Mukesh Eswaran, gender matters in economics. He's the author of the textbook of the… Continue reading