Oct 28 Foreclosure Issues Elicit Strong Debate By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: John Magill Question: Regarding your Oct.14 article on foreclosures and specifically the… Continue reading
Oct 27 Your Mortgage Questions Answered: Consumer Lawyer Max Gardner Editor's Note: In Show Me the Mortgage, Paul Solman talked to "the dean of the bankruptcy bar," North Carolina lawyer Max Gardner, about the possibly fraudulent paperwork banks are under investigation for using. Gardner answers viewer and reader… Continue reading
Oct 26 Nightmarish Stories of Mortgage Modification Woes By Elizabeth Shell The idea that bank paperwork can weigh you down is nothing new. But the foreclosure cases we've come across lately sound downright Kafka-esque. A homeowner trying to modify her mortgage is told to fax documents to a certain department. Soon… Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch In Ohio, Job Losses May Sway Election Choices As campaigning enters the home stretch before Election Day, job losses and the economy remain dominant issues in races across the country -- especially in the former manufacturing powerhouse of northeastern Ohio. Special correspondent Betsy Stark reports on one of… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch Political Notebook: New Polls Show Republican Edge in Enthusiasm Political Editor David Chalian speaks with Margaret Warner about a new set of polls showing Republicans leading among likely voters and the midterm campaigning focusing more on President Obama's job performance. Continue watching
Oct 21 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the arts are not escaping historic government spending cuts in Britain as Arts Council England is having its budget cut by almost 30 percent. Continue reading
Oct 20 Nonprofit Bank Buys Foreclosed Homes, Then Sells Them Back to Former Owners By Paul Solman // We have the third installment of our Making Sen$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