May 16 Watch As Defense Rests, What’s at Stake for John Edwards? Despite a nearly three-week run by the prosecution, John Edwards' defense attorneys rested after two days without calling the former vice presidential nominee, his mistress or daughter to the stand regarding the campaign finance charges he faces. Judy Woodruff and… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch The Financial Answer Man: Carl Richards Takes Your Questions We're unveiling a new miniseries here on Making Sen$e: Carl and Paul on Personal Finance. Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch Pelosi Outlines Democrats’ Campaign Vision House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Judy Woodruff in an interview Thursday that the deal forged on Capitol Hill to extend a payroll tax cut and continue unemployment insurance benefits will create jobs and help the economy. Pelosi also discussed… Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch ‘The Buyout of America’ Author on Occupy Wall Street Protests We ask business journalist and author Josh Kosman about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch Millions of Distressed Properties Stuck in ‘Shaky’ U.S. Housing Market The troubled U.S. housing market got some good news Tuesday with word that prices in four major cities are on the rise, but a full recovery still appears to be a long way off. Jeffrey Brown discusses why home sales… Continue watching
Aug 18 Getting High for Less: Easier Access to Better, Cheaper Heroin Cripples Small Towns By Paul Solman Black tar heroin. Photo via the City of Wichita police department. Note: We've been exploring economic inequality in America this week, and thought it an opportune moment to share something we had hoped to post the last time… Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden’s Super-Duper Rich By Paul Solman // Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic… Continue reading
Aug 16 Europe’s Stuttering Economy By Paul Solman With the eurozone in such obvious economic turmoil, we turn to former chief IMF economist and longtime friend and favorite of Making Sen$e, Simon Johnson (Peterson Institute, MIT). We asked him a series of pressing questions: Paul Solman: Is… Continue reading
Aug 15 In Defense of Flogging: Controversial Conversation on Prisons and Punishment By Paul Solman We were curious: is flogging — beating someone solidly on the behind with a wooden cane — a reasonable, effective alternative to sending that person to jail for two, five, 10 years? That’s exactly what Peter Moskos, a police… Continue reading