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
Aug 04 Watch New Orleans Getting Stronger, but Katrina's Problems Linger 5 Years Later A new report from the Brookings Institution shows New Orleans' population and economy are rebounding five years after Hurricane Katrina, plus the city now has better schools, better access to health care and a stronger criminal justice system. Gwen Ifill… Continue watching
Jul 30 Watch Will U.S. Auto Industry Manage to Survive Recession? On a day that President Obama touted his administration's efforts to save the U.S. auto industry, Judy Woodruff assesses the state of the industry with Micheline Maynard, senior editor of Changing Gears, a new public media project focusing on the… Continue watching
Jul 29 Watch Did Stimulus Funding Help or Hurt U.S. Economy in the Long Run? A new study by economists Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder showed the U.S. government's nearly $800 billion economic stimulus and the Wall Street bailout likely steered the American economy away from another depression. Jeffrey Brown moderates a debate between Zandi… Continue watching
Jul 23 Watch In Spain, Crushing Unemployment Piles Onto Economic Worries Paul Solman wraps up his weeklong reporting on Europe's economic woes with a final report concentrating on the massive unemployment problem in Spain. Continue watching