Jan 30 More Economic Comedy Routines: The Economics of Spam and What’s So Funny About Monetary Policy? By Paul Solman // In the third extract from this year's American Economic Association (AEA) Humor Session, let's hear it for Justin Rao of Microsoft Research, who talks about "The Economics of Spam." Note that the several mentions of "Varian" refer to Hal… Continue reading
Jan 28 Can Your Employer Fire You Over a Facebook Posting? Weigh In Here Updated, 7:50 a.m. Monday's Daily Download segment explored how employers are being forced to rewrite social media rules. Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily Download joined me for a discussion about how the rapidly evolving digital world… Continue reading
Jan 28 Ask Larry: Has My Social Security Office Given Me Bad Advice? By Paul Solman Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Today, Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff answers readers' questions covering issues from retirement, medicare and more. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his… Continue reading
Jan 28 Ask Larry: Has My Social Security Office Given Me Bad Advice? Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Today, Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff answers readers' questions covering issues from retirement, medicare and more. _Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and… Continue reading
Jan 27 Finding an Economic, Environmental Win-Win in Davos DAVOS, Switzerland -- One of the topics that's come to the fore at the World Economic Forum over the last decade of meetings is global climate change. A conference bringing thousands of people from across the planet to a little… Continue reading
Jan 27 Big Ideas in Davos Thirty heads of state and government and 2500 business and academic elite hammer out ways to fend off new storm clouds hanging over the global economy at the World Economic Forum. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images. DAVOS, Switzerland -- If… Continue reading
Jan 25 Is the National Debt Harmful to Our Children? By Paul Solman Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a reader at Next Avenue. The NewsHour has partnered with Next… Continue reading
Jan 25 Is the National Debt Harmful to Our Children? By Paul Solman Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a reader at Next Avenue. The NewsHour has partnered with Next… Continue reading
Jan 25 Rising Inequality: Don’t Blame the Robots By Paul Solman Robots work on 2008 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUV frames on the assembly line at Ford Motor Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Mich. Photo by Rebecca Cook/REUTERS. Paul Solman: Dean Baker thinks economic inequality is our fault. Baker, who… Continue reading
Jan 24 Notes From Davos, Day Two: UK Reconsiders Relationship With EU A view of the city of Davos, Switzerland, venue of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Jan. 21, 2013. Photo by Pascal Lauener/REUTERS. I've just come in off the hushed streets, a light snow is falling in the crisp… Continue reading