Jul 05 Compared to Europe, Does the U.S. Really Have Its Act Together? A euro coin rests on top of a dollar bill. Photo by: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's query:… Continue reading
Jul 04 All That Glisters Is Not Gold (When It Comes to the Gold Standard) Gold bars and coins at a gold dealer in London. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/ Bloomberg/ Getty Images Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is… Continue reading
Jun 29 Is Workplace Marijuana Testing a Boondoggle or Money Saver? Photo of a small marijuana plant in Oakland, Calif. by Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Name: Patricia Schwarz Question: Has pre-employment urine screening for marijuana actually helped businesses save money? According to studies done for the… Continue reading
Jun 28 Using a Retirement Account to Buy a Home, Plus a Paul Krugman Round-Up Economists Robin Wells and Paul Krugman. Photo by PBS NewsHour. Our web-exclusive interviews with Paul Krugman, accompanied by conservative critiques, and one with his wife, Robin Wells, have garnered so much attention that all five ranked among the nine… Continue reading
Jun 27 A Q-and-A, Plus a Ditty and Contest as U.S. Races Toward the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Wednesday we debut a new song by the superstar of C&E music (Country & Eastern), Merle Hazard. We have featured Merle, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nashville money manager Jon Shayne, proudly and… Continue reading
Jun 26 U.S. Housing Prices on the Rise — Except in Detroit Shuttered and repossessed homes line the streets of a middle class neighborhood on the East side of Detroit. Photo by Charles Ommanney/Getty Images. Only in Detroit. That's the punchline from the monthly S&P/Case-Shiller housing survey, published Tuesday… Continue reading
Jun 25 Is Google Scared? Submit Your Questions on the Future of Social Media By Paul Solman // On Friday's show, I interviewed Rory O'Connor, longtime video journalist, blogger and author of the new book, "Friends, Followers and the Future," about the power and perils of social networks. O'Connor has agreed to answer… Continue reading
Jun 22 Robin Wells on Universal Coverage, Europe Unwinding and Husband Paul Krugman In the last installment of our extended profile of Paul Krugman, we turn to his wife Robin Wells. An economist who also co-authors textbooks with him, Wells talked with us at their home on a particularly rainy… Continue reading
Jun 21 Paul Krugman on the ‘Cartoon Physics’ of the 2008 Crash EmbedVideo(3695, 620, 386); Thursday marks the penultimate installment of our extended profile of economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman here on Making Sen$e. The topic: What happened in the great crash of '08? Are we… Continue reading
Jun 20 Paul Krugman on Ben Bernanke’s ‘Green Shoots’ EmbedVideo(3686, 620, 386); Continuing our profile of economist Paul Krugman, we turn to a topic in the news today: the Federal Reserve. On Monday, remember, we featured Krugman on European austerity, with a response from Jacob… Continue reading