Aug 18 Getting High for Less: Easier Access to Better, Cheaper Heroin Cripples Small Towns By Elizabeth Shell By Paul Solman, Kelly Chen and Sarah Svoboda Black tar heroin. Photo via the City of Wichita police department. Note: We've been exploring economic inequality in America this week, and thought it an opportune moment to share something… Continue reading
Aug 17 Send Us Your Questions on Wealth, Inequality Update: Thanks for all your questions! We'll post some of the answers here soon. Editor's Note: Our story on Tuesday's program has certainly struck a chord. In the first in a series on economic inequality in the United… Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden’s Super-Duper Rich EmbedVideo(1266, 514, 320); Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of… Continue reading
Aug 16 Europe’s Stuttering Economy With the eurozone in such obvious economic turmoil, we turn to former chief IMF economist and longtime friend and favorite of Making Sen$e, Simon Johnson (Peterson Institute, MIT). We asked him a series of pressing questions: Paul Solman:… Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? continued Editor’s Note | Aug. 17, 2011: The middle pie represents the income distribution of Sweden. For more, see ‘Building a Better America–One Wealth Quintile at a Time‘ by Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton. The correct answer was ‘Freedonia’… Continue reading
Aug 12 Wealth: How Does the U.S. Slice the Pie? Photo by flickr user sciondriver. Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing… Continue reading
Aug 11 How Bad Is the Current Stock Crash? Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Photo by Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Editor's Note: Given the rollercoaster behavior of the stock market over the past few weeks, we checked… Continue reading
Aug 10 Another Take on a Volatile Market Financial professionals work the phones on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. Sorry I didn't post Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil. I was giving a speech at… Continue reading
Aug 09 Markets Jittery as Fed Announces Near-Zero Interest Rate Freeze Federal Reserve officials announced they would keep interest rates unchanged after a faltering economic recovery and a U.S. credit-rating cut provoked a rout in global stocks. Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Editor's note: Following a 634-point… Continue reading
Aug 08 How to Not Let Mistakes Define You EmbedVideo(1190, 514, 320); We recently reported on the prison initiative of Bard College, a selective school currently running degree programs in five New York prisons. Skeptics of prison reform should take note of one Anthony Cardenales,… Continue reading