Dec 01 Watch Illinois pensions in peril By PBS News Hour Associated Press reporter Sarah Burnett talks to Hari Sreenivasan about new legislation concerning the state’s pension system and about how it may affect retirees, labor unions and taxpayers in that state and in others. Continue watching
Nov 30 Political activist arrested in Egypt By Jenny Marder Late Thursday, a prominent Egyptian political activist, Alaa Abd El Fattah, was arrested in his home in Cairo. Alaa Abd El Fattah at his home in Cairo, 2007. Credit: NOW on PBS Abd El Fattah's wife, Manal Hassan, told the… Continue reading
Nov 29 Stocks fall on Black Friday, but up for the month Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Online Black Friday sales couldn't make up for declines in phone and industrial shares on a half day of trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor's 500 Index closed slightly… Continue reading
Nov 29 Sex cells: The gender divided market for eggs and sperm Egg agencies and sperm banks, while they offer new fertility technology, have helped perpetuate old gender stereotypes, explains Yale sociologist Rene Almeling. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Ian Crowther. Continue reading
Nov 29 Sex Cells: The Gender Divided Market for Eggs and Sperm By Rene Almeling Egg agencies and sperm banks, while they offer new fertility technology, have helped perpetuate old gender stereotypes, explains Yale sociologist Rene Almeling. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Ian Crowther. Editor's Note: Today's fertility industry is an economic force to… Continue reading
Nov 28 Watch Exploring the economics of the first Thanksgiving The first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Mass., probably didn't resemble the modern holiday we celebrate today. Economics correspondent Paul Solman steps back in time to explore the contrasting exchange models used by Native Americans and pilgrims in 1621 and how that… Continue watching
Nov 28 Thanksgiving 2013: The art of the gift in the era of the market Lewis Hyde, author of "The Gift," explores the practice of gift-giving at the first Thanksgiving. Above, a depiction of early settlers of the Plymouth Colony sharing a harvest Thanksgiving meal with members of the local Wampanoag tribe at the Plimoth… Continue reading
Nov 28 Thanksgiving: The Art of the Gift in the Era of the Market Lewis Hyde, author of "The Gift," explores the practice of gift-giving at the first Thanksgiving. Above, a depiction of early settlers of the Plymouth Colony sharing a harvest Thanksgiving meal with members of the local Wampanoag tribe at the Plimoth… Continue reading
Nov 27 The newest bubble: peer-to-peer lending? // Is there a bubble boosting the market? Wall Street money manager Doug Dachille, who appeared in our Making Sense segment on the stock market last week (above), thinks so. He points to one existing bubble -- albeit still small… Continue reading
Nov 27 The Newest Bubble: Peer-to-Peer Lending? // Paul Solman: On Friday's NewsHour, we looked at the stock market in light of the Dow-Jones Industrial Average ending the week atop 16,000, a new record. (Watch the segment above). Our main protagonist was Wall Street money manager… Continue reading