Jan 05 Watch Will 2010 Bring a New Recession? Stocks are making gains, but new jobs remain elusive. Judy Woodruff asks a panel of experts whether 2010 will be a year of economic recovery, or merely the start of a double-dip recession. Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch Economy May Hold Hopeful Signals for New Year In terms of the economy, it's good riddance to 2009. As for 2010, Ray Suarez speaks with a panel of experts about reasons for hopes and fears in the new year. Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch Looking Back at Wall Street’s Behavior in 2009 Jeffrey Brown speaks with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and John Cassidy of The New Yorker about the fallout from the financial crisis, the big bailouts and Wall Street's mentality. Continue watching
Dec 14 Obama Prods Bankers to Do More to Revive U.S. Economy By Dave Gustafson In a White House meeting with the executives of the nation's largest banks, President Obama called on financial institutions to step up efforts to revive the U.S. economy after they received "extraordinary" financial assistance. Continue reading
Dec 14 Citigroup to Repay $20B in TARP Funds By Maureen Hoch Citigroup announced Monday that it will repay $20 billion in taxpayer money, becoming the last of the major Wall Street banks to exit the government-funded bailout program. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch Pay Czar Feinberg Rolls Out Salary Caps on Wall Street Execs The Obama administration's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, has set a $500,000 limit on executive compensation at bailed-out financial firms. In an interview with Judy Woodruff, Feinberg explains the pay cap. Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch House OKs Sweeping Wall Street Overhaul The House on Friday voted 223 to 202 in favor of the most far-reaching overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression in hopes of averting a repeat of last year's banking crisis. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch Obama Offers Job Plan, But Deficit Pressures Rise President Obama outlined a series of initiatives Tuesday aimed at spurring job growth through aid for small businesses, despite mounting pressures to reduce a record federal budget deficit. Judy Woodruff speaks with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman and former presidential economic… Continue watching
Nov 24 Report: 23% of Mortgaged Homes ‘Underwater’ The number of U.S. homes worth less than the mortgages owed on them reached 10.7 million, or 23 percent of all mortgaged homes, in the third quarter, according to a new report. Continue reading
Nov 17 TARP Watchdog: N.Y. Fed ‘Severely Limited’ Savings on AIG By Carolyn O'Hara The Federal Reserve Bank of New York ceded much of its negotiating power to AIG's trading partners during the insurance giant's rescue last year, according to a new report from the watchdog for the Troubled Asset Relief Fund. Continue reading