Oct 11 Watch 'Inequality is bad for everyone': Robert Reich fights economic imbalance 'Inequality is bad for everyone': Robert Reich fights against economic imbalance… Continue watching
Oct 11 How Singapore uses incentives: Leaders paid $1.3M Singapore is such a wealthy, clean and peaceful city-state, in part, because of government incentives and disincentives to encourage and discourage certain behaviors. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Peter Garnhum via Creative Commons. Continue reading
Oct 11 How Singapore Uses Incentives: Leaders Get $1.3M, Cars Go for $100K By Lew Mandell Singapore is such a wealthy, clean and peaceful city-state, in part, because of government incentives and disincentives to encourage and discourage certain behaviors. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Peter Garnhum via Creative Commons. Paul Solman: Financial education… Continue reading
Oct 10 What can Bitcoin buy? No more heroin, but baklava and a dinner date What can bitcoins get you and how do you make purchases with them? They may be a safer payment option than credit cards, suggests Marc Hochstein, and you don't even need to own them to transact with them, explains Stephen… Continue reading
Oct 10 What Can Bitcoin Buy? No More Heroin, but Baklava and a Dinner Date By Marc Hochstein and Stephen Pair What can Bitcoins get you and how do you make purchases with them? Photo courtesy of Flickr user Rene Walter. Continuing our series of interviews about Bitcoin, which we explored in last week's… Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch Janet Yellen nominated to succeed Bernanke as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen nominated to succeed Bernanke as Federal Reserve chair… Continue watching
Oct 09 A Bitcoin evangelist on the virtues of cryptocurrency As part of our series of conversations on Bitcoin, Jonathan Mohan explains that even if Bitcoin fails, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Photo courtesy of Flickr user BTC Keychain. Continue reading
Oct 09 A Bitcoin Evangelist on the Virtues of Cryptocurrency By Jonathan Mohan Making Sen$e recently examined Bitcoin and the rise of its mainstream appeal. Paul Solman: Our Bitcoin story on the NewsHour is proving so popular that we've decided to post longer excerpts of our main interviews. Earlier… Continue reading
Oct 09 IMF projects slowed growth for global economy photo by International Monetary Fund/Flickr Creative Commons The International Monetary Fund's latest projections for the global economy expects a 2.9 percent growth this year, a drop from the 3.2 percent the organization estimated in July. The 2014… Continue reading
Oct 09 Japan and China have 2.4 trillion reasons to be worried about the debt ceiling debate Together, China and Japan hold more than $2.4 trillion in U.S. debt--easily the largest credit card bill in world history (and second only to the debt obligations held by the Federal Reserve). And the two nations want to… Continue reading