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
Oct 15 Watch Treasury Chief Jack Lew: Stop treating budget matters with crisis-driven politics By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch What Wall Street's wild swings say about the global economy By PBS News Hour Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Independently minded Coloradans make Senate race unpredictable By PBS News Hour In Colorado, one of the GOP’s main midterm battlegrounds to take control of the Senate, the candidates seem to be advocating to women to decide the race. But Rocky Mountain voters are just as likely to legalize marijuana as expand… Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch Economic uncertainty haunts Michigan governor's re-election bid By PBS News Hour Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is fighting for re-election in Michigan, a state that voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012. His opponent, Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, is using Snyder’s economic record to weaken the incumbent. Christy McDonald of Detroit… Continue watching