May 05 Ask Oscar-Winning ‘Inside Job’ Director Your Questions on the Financial Crisis By Paul Solman // Editor's Note: Producer and director Charles Ferguson won an Academy Award this year for "Inside Job," his documentary about the financial crisis. On Wednesday night's broadcast, we spoke with Ferguson about one of the major… Continue reading
May 04 Ask Oscar-Winning ‘Inside Job’ Director Your Questions on the Financial Crisis Producer and director Charles Ferguson won an Academy Award earlier this year for "Inside Job", his documentary about the financial crisis. On Wednesday night's broadcast we'll speak to Ferguson about one of the major focuses of the film: alleged conflicts… Continue reading
Apr 21 Budget Showdown: What’s In the Obama and Ryan Plans? By Paul Solman Editor's Note: This week President Obama has been crisscrossing the country, selling his budget plan to the American people. Meanwhile, Republican Representative Paul Ryan has been pitching his budget proposal to constituents in Wisconsin. We wanted… Continue reading
Apr 21 Budget Showdown: What’s In the Obama and Ryan Plans? By Elizabeth Shell Editor's Note: This week President Obama has been crisscrossing the country selling his budget plan to the American people. Meanwhile, Republican Representative Paul Ryan has been pitching his budget proposal to constituents in Wisconsin. We wanted to take… Continue reading
Apr 19 S&P’s Dire Warning: Of Any Significance At All? Call me a contrarian -- or just your garden-variety journalist/skeptic -- but when I read the much-ballyhooed Standard & Poor's announcement yesterday, I shook my shiny head. "Because the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers, what we consider… Continue reading
Apr 11 Could ‘Financial Weather Observers’ Prevent Another Economic Crisis? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Michael Cassady Question: As I read deeper into the details about the financial crisis, it seems the root condition that capital is 'capitalizing upon,' excuse the pun, is the transitional inefficiencies affecting the integration of formerly hegemonic national economies… Continue reading
Mar 30 Are American Workers Overpaid? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Alex Question: Maybe it's my background as a college instructor (and union member), but Paul Solman's tone in his inquiry into GM workers' wages raised my hackles. It may be that the intent was didactic -- to instruct viewers… Continue reading
Mar 29 Watch 11:42 Revisiting Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster Site of Epic Proportions By PBS News Hour The nuclear crisis in Japan has renewed interest in the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien travels to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which is approaching its 25th anniversary. Continue watching
Mar 28 Economic Forecasters: Crow or Eat Crow By Elizabeth Shell Name: Dr. Gene Audette Question: Every year it's prognostications, prognostications. But seldom do "columns" like yours do a retrospective to compare what was predicted to what actually occurred, and to get the same prognosticator to have to defend his/her predictions… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Japan Works to Restore Reactors’ Power Supplies; Fear of Contaminated Food Rises Judy Woodruff talks to a former IAEA official about efforts to contain the crisis. Continue watching