Nov 15 How Would YOU Balance the U.S. Budget? By Paul Solman The Sunday Times recently featured an exercise that it might make sense for all Americans to try, and certainly members of Congress pressing to balance the budget- Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget. And, if you prefer to get… Continue reading
Nov 15 How Would YOU Balance the U.S. Budget? By Elizabeth Shell The Sunday Times featured an exercise that it might make sense for all Americans to try, and certainly members of Congress pressing to balance the budget- Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget. And if you prefer to get out… Continue reading
Nov 10 How Stimulating is Military Spending? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name: Rich Tuloch Question: I learned long, long ago in school that… Continue reading
Nov 10 How Stimulating is Military Spending? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Rich Tuloch Question: I learned long, long ago in school that military spending is a form of economic stimulus. If I am correct, the past administration (President Bush & co.) spent a great deal more money as stimulus than… Continue reading
Nov 03 Midterm Election Pitted Keynesians Vs. Hayekians, Again "It's the economy, stupid." Bill Clinton, 1992 "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan, 1980 "Defeat the New Deal and its reckless spending."Alf Landon, 1936 "Hoover we trusted, now we're busted." FDR campaign,… Continue reading
Nov 01 A Side Note on Herbal Supplements By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Dick Levinson Question: While I admire your intelligence and integrity, your… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Economists Earn Nobel Prize for Asking How Job Market Works Two Americans and a British-Cypriot won the Nobel Prize in Economics in recognition of their research into why markets often don't work as expected -- particularly the job market. Jeffrey Brown talks to Catherine Rampell of the New York Times… Continue watching
Oct 01 Conversation: Chad Troutwine, Producer of ‘Freakonomics’ By Tom LeGro First a bestselling book, then a popular blog and soon to be a public radio show, the phenomenon that is "Freakonomics" is the brain child of University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. Now, "Freakonomics" is a… Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch Financial Crisis Does Little to Dim Graduates’ Wall Street Aspirations As part of his continuing coverage making sense of the economy, Paul Solman talks to Harvard economist Ben Friedman about the college graduates who continue to flock to Wall Street, three years into the financial crisis. Continue watching
May 25 Watch China Experts Assess Next Steps for U.S. Policy Toward Beijing As the U.S. looks to relieve tensions with China in a series of high-level talks, Ray Suarez gets two points of view on the economic and foreign policy relationships between the two countries. Continue watching