Apr 12 Tool$ Tuesday: Tips For Tax Day By Elizabeth Shell Tax day is breathing down our necks: just under one week left to file. And that's including this year's three-day extension; tax day bumped from the traditional April 15th to the 18th since DC government workers are off Friday (the… Continue reading
Apr 11 Could ‘Financial Weather Observers’ Prevent Another Economic Crisis? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Michael Cassady Question: As I read deeper into the details about the financial crisis, it seems the root condition that capital is 'capitalizing upon,' excuse the pun, is the transitional inefficiencies affecting the integration of formerly hegemonic national economies… Continue reading
Apr 06 Government Shutdown: Rx of the Devil or Just What the Doctor Ordered? By Diane Lincoln Estes A conversation this morning with a centrist Democrat from the Brookings Institution who lived through the shutdown of 1995, economist Martin Baily. "In terms of the economy, it had a surprisingly small effect," he said. "On the other hand, when… Continue reading
Mar 30 Are American Workers Overpaid? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Alex Question: Maybe it's my background as a college instructor (and union member), but Paul Solman's tone in his inquiry into GM workers' wages raised my hackles. It may be that the intent was didactic -- to instruct viewers… Continue reading
Mar 28 Economic Forecasters: Crow or Eat Crow By Elizabeth Shell Name: Dr. Gene Audette Question: Every year it's prognostications, prognostications. But seldom do "columns" like yours do a retrospective to compare what was predicted to what actually occurred, and to get the same prognosticator to have to defend his/her predictions… Continue reading
Mar 18 Deflation: Inflation’s Evil Twin By Elizabeth Shell Name: Doug Shoaf Question: Given the harm that inflation does to the personal finances of almost every individual in the country, and its tendency to encourage spending and discourage saving, why do so many of our public officials and business… Continue reading
Mar 16 Live Chat: Economic Inequality By Elizabeth Shell EDITOR’S NOTE: Join us live right here on Thursday, March 17 at 3p.m. ET for a chat between Paul Solman, Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation and Derek Thompson of The Atlantic. The discussion will be… Continue reading
Mar 16 The Financial Blame Game: Who’s At Fault? By Elizabeth Shell Name: Michael Cassady Question: With the suffering from the financial crisis falling mostly on masses of people who were not responsible for causing it, why has there not been a healthy postmortem and acceptance of responsibility before the victims are… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch Paul Solman and Dante Chinni Talk Economic Inequality in Ohio Paul Solman and Dante Chinni discuss the two economic worlds they found in Ohio. Continue watching
Mar 15 Paul Solman and Dante Chinni Talk Economic Inequality in Ohio By Elizabeth Shell EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul Solman and Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently traveled to two counties in Ohio - Crawford and Delaware. Thirty years ago they had similar average incomes but today, they've grown apart. The town of Galion in… Continue reading