Nov 09 Watch APEC Summit a ‘big moment’ for China’s relationship with world powers By PBS News Hour The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit will soon get underway in Bejing, with member countries seeking to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the region. Orville Schell, the Director of the Center for US-China Relations at the Asia Society, joins… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch Behind Detroit’s ‘grand bargain’ to emerge from bankruptcy By PBS News Hour Nearly 16 months after Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country’s history, a federal judge approved a plan to drop the city’s $7 billion in debt and invest over $1 billion in public services. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch Positive jobs report may not reassure Americans with part-time work By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 07 Judge confirms Detroit’s plan to exit largest municipal bankruptcy By Ruth Tam U.S. judge Steven Rhodes confirmed a plan Friday that will cut over $7 billion in unsecured liabilities and pump $1.4 billion into the Motor City for basic rehabilitation over the next decade. Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch News Wrap: Burkina Faso declares state of emergency By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, protesters in Burkina Faso stormed the parliament and set it on fire to protest the rule of its president, who has been in power for 27 years. Also, the U.S. economy continued to make solid… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Why the Fed frets about both jobs and inflation By PBS News Hour After six years of financial stimulus to mitigate the fallout from the 2008 collapse, the Federal Reserve is ending its money creation programs. But the country is still in economic recovery and the role of the Federal Reserve is still… Continue watching
Oct 29 Federal Reserve ends six years of quantitative easing By Simone Pathe After six years, the Federal Reserve announced the final drawdown of its bonding-buying program known as quantitative easing, or QE, at the end of its two-day policy meeting Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch New thriller breaks into the Federal Reserve By PBS News Hour Matthew Quirk’s “The Directive,” a sequel to his bestselling novel “The 500,” imagines a heist to steal billions from a trading desk at the Federal Reserve. Jeffrey Brown talks to Quirk about how he researched the high-stakes break-in. Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch 8:38 Will Promise Zone initiative lift Eastern Kentucky’s coal country out of poverty? By PBS News Hour Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson visited Kentucky and declared the War on Poverty, the area of Eastern Kentucky continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, poverty, and the loss of thousands of coal-industry jobs. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports… Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch Shrinking U.S. deficit shows stability amid market jitters By PBS News Hour Worries about Ebola, Europe and the U.S. economy drove another dive on Wall Street. On the same day, the Obama administration announced the national deficit has declined to its lowest level since 2007. Gwen Ifill talks to Treasury Secretary Jack… Continue watching