Oct 14 Retail Sales Up, but Auto Sales Sag Without 'Clunkers' By Dave Gustafson Retail sales for September fell by the largest amount this year, though most of the drop is attributed to cars sales plummeting at the end of the government's popular 'cash for clunkers' program. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Dow Closes Above 10,000 for First Time in a Year The Dow Jones industrial average closed Wednesday above 10,000 for the first time since Oct. 3, 2008. Ray Suarez speaks with a Washington Post reporter about the significance. Continue watching
Oct 05 New Court Term to Tackle Free Speech, Business Regulation, Gun Rights By Quinn Bowman The Supreme Court, newly reconfigured with the addition of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, will hear several cases involving high-profile issues this term, including First Amendment rights, gun control, criminal law and business regulation. Continue reading
Jul 13 Simon Johnson on Whether Wall Street Has Changed By Business Desk Paul Solman: MIT’s Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, is a frequent contributor to the NewsHour and this page. He’s also coauthor of a blog… Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch 'Cloud Computing' Could Transform Data Storage Some businesses are beginning to embrace a technology called "cloud computing" -- storing data and programs on the Internet rather than on an individual company's computers. But critics worry about privacy issues. Spencer Michels reports. Continue watching
Jun 19 Making Sen$e 2.0 Attention all teachers, viewers, readers, skimmers, and occasional passersby: The second edition of our Economics-for-Everyone Web site, Making Sen$e, is now up and running. Please visit and please, please respond with suggestions as to what you’d like to… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch Business Students Rethink Wall Street Plans After the economic slump scuttled their plans to enter the financial sector, business students at Duke University look at different alternatives, such as graduate school, or rethink their career paths altogether. Judy Woodruff talks to some recent graduates in the… Continue watching
May 27 A Final Thought on the Andrews-McArdle Affair Paul Solman: The blizzard of response to the Andrews/McArdle affair has thinned to a flurry, but flakes keep coming, affording me an opportunity to respond to the persistent inclemency and continue the multi-logue, a first for this page. Continue reading
May 22 Watch Cap-and-Trade Bill Passes House Energy Panel The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved Friday a cap-and-trade bill for greenhouse gas emissions. A reporter examines the bill's pros and cons and the state of the energy and climate policy debate. Continue watching
May 06 Watch H1N1 Flu Virus Death Toll Reaches 42 in Mexico In the latest of a series of reports from Mexico City, Ray Suarez provides an update on how the H1N1 flu virus is affecting the city as the death toll climbed to 42. Continue watching