Jul 27 China’s Communism and Capitalism: The New Yin Yang? By Paul Solman The short third installment of Yoram Bauman's vlog from China is well worth the watching, highlighting the tension between the "official" China and what's really going on there. Communist Party founder Mao AND $300,000 Porsches? Yoram asks. "Do… Continue reading
Jul 18 Were We Too Easy on Lincoln Electric? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here are a few queries: // We received a flurry of worried responses to our… Continue reading
Jul 15 Stand-up Economist: Is China Asia’s Ecuador? By Paul Solman // Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman has now made it to China and filed the second of his vlogs for us from Beijing. We found his comparison of China to Ecuador fascinating. For those who crave a… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch Stand-up Economist: Is China Asia’s Ecuador? Standup economist Yoram Bauman has made it to China and filed the second of his vlogs. Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 8:48 ‘Parazit’ Fuses Iranian Politics and Comedy Jeffrey Brown talks with the creators of "Parazit". Continue watching
Jan 19 Onion News Network Takes On TV "The Onion News Network," a 30-minute, weekly television program, will debut on IFC on Friday. The show comes on the heels of "SportsDome," which premiered on Comedy Central and satirizes the round-the-clock coverage of sports channels like ESPN. Continue reading
Nov 17 Economics is Missing A Funny Bone | An Interview With ‘Merle Hazard’ By Elizabeth Shell The [Fed's announcement](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/11/fed-slow-growth-disappointing-will-engage-in-second-round-of-quantitiative-easing.html) of another round of so-called "quantitative easing" (QE2) is much in the news. Basically, it's an announced commitment to create $600 billion dollars or more of new "Federal reserves" - i.e., U.S. dollars - and [pump them… Continue reading
Nov 11 For Birbiglia, Comedy Is a Means to an End Mike Birbiglia, a regular on PRI's "This American LIfe", has turned his one-man off-Broadway comedy show into a new book called "Sleepwalk With Me."… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow Jeffrey Brown talks to producer and director Judd Apatow about what's behind his string of successful movies and his new book, "I Found This Funny." Apatow has been the force behind hit films such as "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and… Continue watching
Oct 25 Monday on the NewsHour: Judd Apatow By Tom LeGro, Mary Jo Brooks An extended interview with Judd Apatow, whose latest pursuit is a book called "I Found This Funny."… Continue reading