Dec 14 Watch Small Businesses Buckling Under Recession’s Credit Freeze Tom Bearden examines how small businesses' inability to get credit is playing out in Colorado. Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch Obama: Banks Must Lend More to Help Economy President Obama asked the leaders of top U.S. banks on Monday to assume a larger role in helping the economy to recover. Kwame Holman reports and then Judy Woodruff speaks with presidential senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for more details. Continue watching
Dec 11 Patchwork Nation: Health Care System Buckles as Tourism Slows in Ore. By Anna Shoup In Lincoln City, Ore., where the local economy remains heavily dependent on tourism, many jobs lack health insurance. And when jobs become scarce, even more find themselves struggling to find care. Continue reading
Dec 11 Friday’s Headlines: House Is Close to Passing Financial Overhaul Bill House leaders moved closer Thursday night to approving a sweeping overhaul of the country's financial regulatory system. If enacted, the bill "would mark the largest revamp to the country's financial regulatory regime since the Great Depression," reports the… Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch House OKs Sweeping Wall Street Overhaul The House on Friday voted 223 to 202 in favor of the most far-reaching overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression in hopes of averting a repeat of last year's banking crisis. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch Good Times Go On Holiday In Oregon Tourist Town As part of the Patchwork Nation series examining communities across the U.S., Ray Suarez travels to picturesque Lincoln City, Oregon, where the recession has sapped the local tourism industry. Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch Pay Czar Feinberg Rolls Out Salary Caps on Wall Street Execs The Obama administration's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, has set a $500,000 limit on executive compensation at bailed-out financial firms. In an interview with Judy Woodruff, Feinberg explains the pay cap. Continue watching
Dec 10 Geithner: Hasty Exit From TARP Could Prolong Downturn Testifying before an oversight panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the U.S. economy is much improved, but struggling against "headwinds" like high unemployment and foreclosure rates. As a result, he argued, the… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Economic Bust Strikes Colorado ‘Boom Town’ As part of the Patchwork Nation series, Ray Suarez travels to Eagle, Colo., where the real estate boom of earlier this decade has culminated in an especially painful bust. Continue watching