Aug 30 Watch News Wrap: Obama Calls for Small Business Assistance In other news Monday, President Obama called for new action to help the sluggish economy and urged new assistance for small businesses. In Pakistan, thousands of refugees began to head home as flood waters receded in some areas. Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Has Fed Done All It Can to Prop Up U.S. Economy? Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the central bank is prepared to take new action to help the sagging economy if needed. Jeffrey Brown talks to economists Paul Krugman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin about whether the Fed is doing… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Shields and Brooks on White House’s Economic Predictions, Beck Rally Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks analyze the week's top news including economic slowdown concerns, the Federal Reserve's role in propping up the U.S. economy, how John McCain staved off primary opposition and what to expect from weekend rallies in… Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch U.S. Pledges More Aid to Pakistan for Flood Crisis In the day's other news, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, visited Pakistan and made a pledge for additional U.S. aid. Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch News Wrap: Boehner Calls for Change in Economic Strategy House Minority Leader John Boehner called for President Obama to fire his top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council chief Larry Summers. Meanwhile, voters went to the polls in five states that held primary or run-off… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch Chinese Capital: Good or Bad Influence in Greece? As part of his ongoing reports on Making Sense of financial news, business and economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the pros and cons of a massive infusion of Chinese capital into Greece. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Wall Street Suffers Bad Day Over Fears of Stalling Recovery Major indexes on Wall Street gave back more than two percent of their value Wednesday over concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy. Gwen Ifill discusses the plunge and the Federal Reserve's acknowledgment that the recovery has slowed with… Continue watching
Aug 10 Fed Signals New Concerns on Economic Growth With Debt Move We started this day by saying markets, investors, economists and politicians were watching the Fed's actions Tuesday to see just how worried Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are about the state of a sluggish economy. The answer… Continue reading
Aug 10 The Fed and a Sputtering Economy: What to Do Next? Updated 2:30 p.m. EST The Fed said Tuesday that it will buy some government debt in order to help push down long term rates on mortgages and spur recovery. The Fed says economic growth will be "more modest" than it… Continue reading
Aug 06 Jobs Report Brings More Bad News for the Unemployed Heading into Friday morning, no one was expecting much good news from the July jobs report. Unfortunately, the picture it provided of the jobs market is even worse than many expected. Payrolls shrank by more than projected. Roughly 130,000… Continue reading