Oct 08 September Job Losses Steeper, Worse for Economy Than Expected By Paul Solman Disturbing September job numbers out Friday showed a net loss in total employment of 95,000 jobs, as the federal government dropped 76,000 positions, mainly Census workers, and state and local governments lost 83,000. In the private sector, jobs increased… Continue reading
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis By Paul Solman The past week's revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 05 With Such High Unemployment, Should the Foreign Worker Program End? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Carter Question: Given current employment, why is there still an H1-B program… Continue reading
Oct 04 What's The Best 'Spending Yourself Out Of Recession' Argument? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Monday's query: Question: You recently answered a question about why stimulus spending is the government's responsibility. I… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Shields and Gerson on Emanuel's Exit, Boehner's Future Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson analyze the week's top news stories, including the change in leadership within the Obama administration and House Minority Leader John Boehner's political future. 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
Sep 30 Even As a Small Stockholder, Why Don't I Have Any Power? Name: Frances Pearson Question: I am a small stockholder. My portfolio is all blue chip. Stockholders in every company are trying to control executive compensation- to no avail. (I vote for all stockholder proposals and do not give my proxy… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Pelosi: Democrats Expect to Keep House Majority, 'Battle-Tested' for Campaign In an interview with Judy Woodruff, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi predicts Democrats will retain a majority in the House despite a hostile political environment and weighs in on the battle over extending Bush-era tax cuts. Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch Former Labor Secretary Reich: Bush-Era Tax Cuts 'Hurt Quite a Lot' In the last of the series of conversations about whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for any, all or some Americans, Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, explains why he believes they should not… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch News Wrap: Consumers, CEOs Hold Gloomier Economic Outlook A business research group reported that U.S. consumers and business executives have a pessimistic outlook for the future, noting consumer confidence was the lowest since February. Continue watching