Aug 15 Is Structural Unemployment ‘Humbug’ or Are Krugman and Baker Biased? By Paul Solman Is there really an economic consensus that unemployment is cyclical, as Paul Krugman suggests? Photo courtesy of Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Liberal economist and much-respected friend Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where he keeps the… Continue reading
Aug 15 Is Structural Unemployment ‘Humbug’ or Are Krugman and Baker Biased? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Is there really an economic consensus that unemployment is cyclical, as Paul Krugman suggests? Photo courtesy of Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Liberal economist and much-respected friend Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where… Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch JP Morgan Inquiry Stays Open After Ex-Traders Charged for Massive Loss Cover-up JP Morgan Inquiry Stays Open After Ex-Traders Charged for Massive Loss Cover-up… Continue watching
Aug 14 Twitter Chat: Are You Prepared for Retirement? PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using #NewsHourChats. Photo by Gilberto Nobrega/PBS NewsHour Where to live is a difficult question at any age, but it… Continue reading
Aug 14 Mindless Budget Reporting: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time The press too often misrepresents budget figures by citing them out of context, argues Dean Baker. Photo courtesy of Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Paul Solman: *Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where he keeps the… Continue reading
Aug 14 Mindless Budget Reporting: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time By Dean Baker The press too often misrepresents budget figures by citing them out of context, argues Dean Baker. Photo courtesy of Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Paul Solman: *Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, where… Continue reading
Aug 12 Treat Social Security as Insurance Against One of Life’s Most Expensive Accidents: Failing to Die on Time By Laurence Kotlikoff You should take your Social Security benefits with the expectation that you could live a very long time, and therefore, want them to be as high as possible. Photo courtesy of John Elk/Lonely Planet Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security… Continue reading
Aug 12 Treat Social Security as Insurance Against One of Life’s Most Expensive Accidents: Failing to Die on Time By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff You should take your Social Security benefits with the expectation that you could live a very long time, and therefore, want them to be as high as possible. Photo courtesy of John Elk/Lonely Planet Images. Larry Kotlikoff's… Continue reading
Aug 09 Is the Fed’s ‘Great Unwind’ a Non-event or the Chickens Finally Coming Home to Roost? By Paul Solman Merle Hazard performs "The Great Unwind," his latest economics music video, produced by Nashville Public Television. In his latest music video, which we debuted on Wednesday, econo-crooner Merle Hazard, aka Nashville money manager Jon Shayne, addresses the… Continue reading
Aug 09 Is the Fed’s ‘Great Unwind’ a Nonevent or the Chickens Finally Coming Home to Roost? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Merle Hazard performs "The Great Unwind," his latest economics music video, produced by Nashville Public Television. In his latest music video, which we debuted on Wednesday, econo-crooner Merle Hazard, aka Nashville money manager Jon… Continue reading