Dec 27 Running Scared: Getting Out of 'World's Safest Investment' Photo by Dan Brownsword 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 Thursday's query: Barbara Pendergrast -- Germantown, Tenn.: Mr. Solman, Do… Continue reading
Dec 26 Watch Risk of Sequestration, Economic Uncertainty Haunts Investors, Federal Employees Risk of Sequestration, Economic Uncertainty Haunts Investors, Federal Employees… Continue watching
Dec 26 Capital Wins, Labor Loses, But Andrew Smithers Says It Can't Go On Warehouse manager at operations desk on computer. Photo courtesy of John McBride & Company Inc. Paul Solman: Jon Shayne is not just the world's No. 1 econo-crooner, belting out economics tunes of his own invention under the stage name… Continue reading
Dec 26 Capital Wins, Labor Loses, But Andrew Smithers Says It Can't Go On By Paul Solman Warehouse manager at operations desk on computer. Photo courtesy of John McBride & Company Inc. Paul Solman: Jon Shayne is not just the world's No. 1 econo-crooner, belting out economics tunes of his own invention under the stage name Merle… Continue reading
Dec 25 Watch Greek Poets Muse Austerity Measures: 'We'll Hawk the Parthenon to Buy Our Bread' Greek Poets Muse Austerity Measures: 'We'll Hawk the Parthenon to Buy Our Bread'… Continue watching
Dec 25 Ask the Headhunter: 'Are Headhunters Worth Talking To?' Photo by Stockbyte via Getty Images. Nick Corcodilos is an expert on how to get a job. We ran into him while doing a story on the relative futility of Internet job boards and asked him to post… Continue reading
Dec 24 What Happens to Unused Social Security Earnings When Someone Dies? Photo by Flikr User seen by tobfl via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of… Continue reading
Dec 24 What Happens to Unused Social Security Earnings When Someone Dies? By Paul Solman Photo by Flikr User seen by tobfl via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of you… Continue reading
Dec 21 Will America Go Broke, Yes or No? Photo by Marc Grimberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Friday's query: Ashok Rao -- Chennai, India: I recently came… Continue reading
Dec 21 James Livingston: Corporations Don't Need Our Savings By Paul Solman James Livingston loves consumption, is skeptical of private investment. Paul Solman pushes him further on positions Livingston raised in a story on the NewsHour Thursday. James Livingston makes three economic arguments in favor of consumption over private investment/greater production. Continue reading