May 17 Geithner: ‘I Don’t Understand’ Why Debt Ceiling Debate Is Back By News Desk U.S. Treasury Secretary speaks with the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown Thursday at Marlin Steel Wire Products, a factory in Baltimore Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown during a factory tour Thursday that he couldn't understand why… Continue reading
May 17 Aren’t We All Better Off if Fannie, Freddie Forgive and Forget? Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo by Flickr user futureatlas.com via a Creative Commons license. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's… Continue reading
May 17 Aren’t We All Better Off if Fannie, Freddie Forgive and Forget? Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo by Flickr user futureatlas.com via a Creative Commons license. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's… Continue reading
May 16 Watch Bill Bradley Outlines Ways to Fix Washington Bill Bradley Outlines Ways to Fix Washington… Continue watching
May 16 Why Isn’t There a Single World Currency? A pile of money from around the world -- currencies of the U.S. (dollar), U.K. (pound), and Europe (euro). Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr user Images_of_Money. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and… Continue reading
May 16 Why Isn’t There a Single World Currency? A pile of money from around the world -- currencies of the U.S. (dollar), U.K. (pound), and Europe (euro). Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr user Images_of_Money. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic… Continue reading
May 15 Watch How Europe’s Turmoil Rattles World Markets Greece's political turmoil intensified Tuesday amid calls for fresh elections. Ray Suarez gets the latest from reporter John Psaropoulos. He then turns to Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Nicholas Burns of Harvard Kennedy School for… Continue watching
May 15 Watch FBI to Probe JPMorgan Practices After Trading Loss At an annual shareholders meeting in Florida Tuesday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon apologized for the company's recent losses and survived a pair of shareholder votes on his pay and job responsibilities. Judy Woodruff discusses the turmoil -- including news of… Continue watching
May 15 Are U.S. Wages Enough to Live On? A waitress carries a pizza to customers at Gino's East restaurant in Chicago. Wait staff in Illinois earn $2.13 an hour, before tips. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on… Continue reading
May 15 Are U.S. Wages Enough to Live On? A waitress carries a pizza to customers at Gino's East restaurant in Chicago. Wait staff in Illinois earn $2.13 an hour, before tips. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience… Continue reading