Oct 19 Obama or Romney? How Accurate Are Economic Models? Last week, Paul Solman examined how polls and election markets parse data to determine who will win an election, in this case, the 2012 presidential race between President Barack Obama and former Mass. governor Mitt Romney. One such pollster,… Continue reading
Oct 19 Could Legalizing and Taxing Drugs Lower the Deficit? Photo by PhotoAlto/Ale Ventura via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Friday's query: Meg Ford: Could legalized and taxed drugs provide… Continue reading
Oct 19 Could Legalizing and Taxing Drugs Lower the Deficit? Photo by PhotoAlto/Ale Ventura via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Friday's query: Meg Ford: Could legalized and taxed drugs provide… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Could the U.S. Face ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’? Protecting Banks from Hacker Attacks Could the U.S. Face 'Cyber Pearl Harbor'? Protecting Banks from Hacker Attacks… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch More Debt, Fewer Jobs: How the Candidates Plan to Solve Rising Costs of College More Debt, Fewer Jobs: How the Candidates Plan to Solve Rising Costs of College… Continue watching
Oct 18 The Growing Student Loan Debt Load Photo by Dorann Weber via Getty Images. The latest numbers on college debt are out this morning, and the picture -- already rattled from reports earlier in the year that Americans owed a cool trillion for their higher… Continue reading
Oct 18 Do You Trust Polls? Should You? Paul Solman interviews professor Doug Schwartz at Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute. Politics professor Doug Schwartz runs the well-respected CBS/New York Times poll at Quinnipiac University. We interviewed him at the university's Polling Institute for a story on… Continue reading
Oct 18 Do You Trust Polls? Should You? Paul Solman interviews professor Doug Schwartz at Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute. Politics professor Doug Schwartz runs the well-respected CBS/New York Times poll at Quinnipiac University. We interviewed him at the university's Polling Institute for a story on… Continue reading
Oct 18 How to Follow the Prediction Markets in Real Time By Paul Solman Digital Vision via Getty Images We have four questions today, since they all concern our recent story on polls, professors and prediction markets and yesterday's afternoon Making Sen$e post on how to make money on presidential prediction… Continue reading
Oct 18 How to Follow the Prediction Markets in Real Time Digital Vision via Getty Images Four questions today, since they all concern our recent story on polls, professors and prediction markets. R Cooper: Where is the live link to IEM, Intrade, and BetFair that is supposed to be… Continue reading