Oct 21 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the arts are not escaping historic government spending cuts in Britain as Arts Council England is having its budget cut by almost 30 percent. Continue reading
Oct 20 Nonprofit Bank Buys Foreclosed Homes, Then Sells Them Back to Former Owners By Paul Solman // We have the third installment of our Making Sen$e foreclosure series on Wednesday's NewsHour. The focus: Boston Community Capital, a privately and publicly funded "community development finance institution." In this web video exclusive, we talk to… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch UK Budget Cuts: Timing, Scale Debated, But Not Principle In light of the UK's new austerity measures, Jeffrey Brown gets two perspectives about Britain's financial future with Ned Temko of The Observer and The Economist's Zanny Minton. Continue watching
Oct 19 One Producer’s Take on Putting a Human Face on the Foreclosure Story By Elizabeth Shell Editor’s note: Here on Making Sen$e, we like to highlight great and interesting work, tools and multimedia that are circulating the Web. While those usually involve the bylines of economists or business experts, that’s not always the case. Continue reading
Oct 18 The Road to ‘Robo-Signing’ One of the controversial pieces of the foreclosure fallout is the possibly illegal procedure known as "robo-signing" that has gained media attention in the last two weeks. We highlighted it in Thursday night's broadcast, which is the first in… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch News Wrap: Retail Sales Pick Up in September Stocks were mixed on Wall Street on the retail news and signals from the Fed that it would do more to boost the economy. Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch Fed’s Next Move: What Will Boost the Economy? Fed chairman Ben Bernanke signaled Friday that his agency is prepared to make new moves to boost the economy. But what would help the most? Jeffrey Brown asks economists. Continue watching
Oct 15 Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner to Answer Your Foreclosure Questions By Paul Solman On the NewsHour Thursday, Paul Solman had the first in a series of reports on the foreclosure debacle. In "Show Me the Mortgage," Solman looked at some of the legal issues being raised about the validity of… Continue reading
Oct 14 Why We’re Looking at Foreclosures By Paul Solman On Thursday's NewsHour, we have the first in a series of stories on foreclosures. A glance at the "Most Popular" list at the Wall St. Journal's online real estate page gives some sense of the shapes these stories are taking:… Continue reading
Oct 12 More From Robert Putnam on ‘American Grace’ By Elizabeth Shell // On Monday's broadcast, correspondent Paul Solman interviewed Robert Putnam, a Harvard public policy professor and one of the co-authors of "American Grace," on religion in America. The full interview delved into many more topics than there was time… Continue reading