Dec 16 Making Sen$e of 2010: Conventional Wisdoms That May Be Wrong By Carolyn O'Hara As the end of a tumultuous economic year approaches, the PBS NewsHour asked several economists and financial experts to look ahead to 2010 and answer one question: What is the economic conventional wisdom with which you most disagree?… Continue reading
Dec 15 Making Sen$e of 2010: Economic Surprises in Store By Carolyn O'Hara As the end of a tumultuous economic year approaches, the PBS NewsHour asked several economists and financial experts to look ahead to 2010 and answer one question: What economic development would surprise you most?… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Other News: Car Bombings Rock Afghanistan, Pakistan In other news, car bombings in both Afghanistan and Pakistan killed at least 40 people and wounded scores more, and medical research pointed to possible danger from radiation during CAT scans. Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch How Big is Too Big to Fail? Paul Solman talks to economist George Schultz about the merging of large, national banks and how that could impact the idea that some companies are too big to fail. Continue watching
Dec 14 Making Sen$e of 2010: The Next Crisis By Carolyn O'Hara With the end of a tumultuous economic year approaching, the PBS NewsHour asked several economists to look ahead to 2010 and answer one question: What other crises may be looming?… Continue reading
Dec 14 Citigroup to Repay $20B in TARP Funds By Maureen Hoch Citigroup announced Monday that it will repay $20 billion in taxpayer money, becoming the last of the major Wall Street banks to exit the government-funded bailout program. Continue reading
Dec 14 Monday’s Headlines: Citi to Repay TARP; Obama Meets With Bankers --Citigroup announced Monday morning it struck a deal with the Treasury Department to repay $20 billion of bailout money. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.) After weeks of trying to persuade regulators that it was sound enough to stand… Continue reading
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 14 Watch Bailout Banks Continue March Toward Recovery Judy Woodruff gets another reaction to the White House banker summit from Steve Bartlett of the Financial Services Roundtable, which lobbies for most of the banks represented in Monday's meeting with President Obama. Continue watching