Nov 01 A Side Note on Herbal Supplements By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Dick Levinson Question: While I admire your intelligence and integrity, your… Continue reading
Oct 29 Readers Express Doubt Over Boston Community Capital Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: A trio of related emails to answer today. First: Name: James… Continue reading
Oct 28 Foreclosure Issues Elicit Strong Debate By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: John Magill Question: Regarding your Oct.14 article on foreclosures and specifically the… Continue reading
Oct 27 Your Mortgage Questions Answered: Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner Editor's Note: In Show Me the Mortgage, Paul Solman talked to "the dean of the bankruptcy bar," North Carolina lawyer Max Gardner, about the possibly fraudulent paperwork banks are under investigation for using. Gardner answers viewer and reader… Continue reading
Oct 26 Nightmarish Stories of Mortgage Modification Woes By Elizabeth Shell The idea that bank paperwork can weigh you down is nothing new. But the foreclosure cases we've come across lately sound downright Kafka-esque. A homeowner trying to modify her mortgage is told to fax documents to a certain department. Soon… Continue reading
Oct 22 Would Unemployment Drop If Wages Were Tied to a Firm's Profits? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Name: Dr. Morris Weinberger Question: Could unemployment be ameliorated by using the… Continue reading
Oct 20 Nonprofit Bank Buys Foreclosed Homes, Then Sells Them Back to Former Owners By Paul Solman // We have the third installment of our Making Sen$e foreclosure series on Wednesday's NewsHour. The focus: Boston Community Capital, a privately and publicly funded "community development finance institution." In this web video exclusive, we talk to… Continue reading
Oct 19 One Producer's Take on Putting a Human Face on the Foreclosure Story By Elizabeth Shell Editor’s note: Here on Making Sen$e, we like to highlight great and interesting work, tools and multimedia that are circulating the Web. While those usually involve the bylines of economists or business experts, that’s not always the case. Continue reading
Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Foreclosure Questions By Paul Solman On the NewsHour Thursday, Paul Solman had the first in a series of reports on the foreclosure debacle. In "Show Me the Mortgage," Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of… Continue reading
Oct 12 This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Skeptics and Supporters By Paul Solman A few words about the Nobel Prize in economics and this year's winners. First, the skeptics. They are eager to point out that the prize in economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences… Continue reading