Mar 22 Economic Inequality: Isn't it Inevitable? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman If you get equal opportunity -- an equal slice of the educational cake or pie -- that doesn't necessarily mean you will have equal economic opportunities as a result. Paul Solman answers a reader's question on why,… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Is Globalization Wiping Out the American Surfboard Industry? Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers fear they will soon be wiped out by competing, foreign companies due to discrepancies in labor costs and duty taxes. Continue watching
Mar 21 Cyprus: The Nightmare Scenario and How to Avoid It in America By Laurence Kotlikoff Customers queue to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) outside a Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, also known as Laiki Bank on Thursday, March 21. The European Central Bank said it may cut Cypriot banks off from emergency funds… Continue reading
Mar 21 Cyprus: The Nightmare Scenario and How to Avoid It in America By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff Customers queue to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) outside a Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, also known as Laiki Bank on Thursday, March 21. The European Central Bank said it may cut Cypriot banks off… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch News Wrap: February Was Best Month in Three Years for Increase of Home Sales In other news Thursday, housing sales were up 0.8 percent in February 2013, the fastest increase in three years. The rise was attributed to record-low mortgage rates and job growth. In Syria, a suicide bomber hit a mosque in Damascus,… Continue watching
Mar 20 Commentary: Silicon Valley Discriminates Against Women, Even If They're Better By Paul Solman Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa discovers that the famed "meritocracy" of Silicon Valley is a myth and that women are systematically discriminated against there, despite the fact that they're more productive, on average, than their male counterparts. He has a… Continue reading
Mar 20 Silicon Valley Discriminates Against Women, Even If They're Better By Vivek Wadhwa Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa discovers that the famed "meritocracy" of Silicon Valley is a myth and that women are systematically discriminated against there, despite the fact that they're more productive, on average, than their male counterparts. He has a… Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch Colleges and Universities See Graying Workforce Holding On to Coveted Positions Colleges and Universities See Graying Workforce Holding On to Coveted Positions… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch Will the Banking Crisis in Cyprus Rock Other Markets? Will the Banking Crisis in Cyrpus Rock Other European and World Markets?… Continue watching
Mar 18 When Will You Retire? By Diane Lincoln Estes Creative Commons photo courtesy of flickr user wheatfieldbrown. Monday's PBS NewsHour will feature our Making Sense story on the aging of academia. The population of professors over 65 has more than doubled since 2000 and many say they… Continue reading