Aug 28 Watch 12:24 Shields and Brooks on Biden’s presidential pondering, voter perceptions of Clinton By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including whether Vice President Joe Biden will join the 2016 presidential race, whether Hillary Clinton has stumbled as a frontrunner and… Continue watching
Aug 28 Gwen’s Take: New Orleans today is a story of pessimism, optimism and grit By Gwen Ifill NEW ORLEANS -- When I set off for New Orleans to help cover the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week, I confess I expected to bear witness to remarkable rejuvenation. Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch 8:46 Court gives SeaTac workers a raise after $15 minimum wage exclusion By PBS News Hour In SeaTac, Washington, home of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, citizens voted in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. But airport businesses challenged the law in court, excluding 5,000 or so workers from receiving the increased benefits. Continue watching
Aug 27 The race for the unbreakable password is almost over By Nsikan Akpan Consumers may soon have access to quantum cryptography, a system for building secret codes that are so secure and difficult to intercept, some call it unhackable. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch 7:39 Is China in the midst of major economic transformation? By PBS News Hour How should we interpret China’s market turmoil? Judy Woodruff talks to Nicholas Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Evan Osnos of The New Yorker. Continue watching
Aug 26 Social Security mix-up? Here’s what you should do By Laurence Kotlikoff Social Security's mistakes with retirement benefits are notoriously difficult to set straight. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch 5:40 What’s driving the global glut of oil By PBS News Hour A year ago, crude oil was trading at more than $100 a barrel. Now, the price of oil is down more than 60 percent from its peak. Gwen Ifill speaks to The Wall Street Journal’s Russell Gold to understand the… Continue watching
Aug 25 Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller says human nature, not China, explains market volatility By Robert Shiller Was the roller coaster week on Wall Street the bursting of a speculative bubble?… Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch 9:18 Why China sent the global markets spiraling By PBS News Hour A stunning sell-off in China rippled across Europe and triggered a frenzy on Wall Street. At the closing bell, American traders cheered, glad that the day was over. Judy Woodruff discusses the recent global market volatility with David Lampton of… Continue watching
Aug 24 John Maynard Keynes on the stock market this past week By Paul Solman Keynes, perhaps the 20th century most eminent economist, had quite the theory about the stock market. Its relevance was too striking to resist. Continue reading