Dec 15 Making Sen$e of 2010: Economic Surprises in Store By Carolyn O'Hara As the end of a tumultuous economic year approaches, the PBS NewsHour asked several economists and financial experts to look ahead to 2010 and answer one question: What economic development would surprise you most?… Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch Dollar's Weakness Inspires Modern-day Gold Rush As part of his series Making Sense of the financial crisis, Paul Solman looks at how the dollar's weakness has spurred a new gold rush. Continue watching
Oct 27 Paul Solman Answers Students' Economic Questions By PBS News Hour Economics correspondent Paul Solman takes his Business Desk blog inside classrooms across the United States to respond to high school students' most pressing questions about Wall Street, the recession and unemployment. Continue reading
Oct 09 Why Is the Price of Gold So High? Question: Why is the price of gold at a record high? And how does that affect the dollar? Paul Solman: Gold is denominated in dollars. So if gold goes up, it means the dollar has gone down, because it takes… Continue reading
Sep 15 Health Premiums Rise, Outstripping Inflation The cost of employer-sponsored health care insurance has risen by about 5 percent this year, according to a new report, outstripping overall inflation and workers' wages. Continue reading
Sep 11 If the FDIC Asks for More Credit from Treasury, What Happens to Inflation? Question: With the FDIC’s funds diminishing, what are the chances it will tap its credit line to the Treasury? And what does that mean for inflation? Paul Solman: The more the… Continue reading
Aug 28 Consumer Spending Rises Slightly, But Confidence Falls Again As the nation looks for more signs of economic recovery, there were mixed signals on Friday as reports showed consumer spending rose slightly last month thanks in part to an increase in auto sales but incomes remained flat. Continue reading
Aug 25 Obama Taps Bernanke for Second Term at Fed Ending speculation that he might appoint a new central bank chief, President Obama said he would nominate Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term Tuesday as the administration continues its efforts to stabilize the embattled U.S. economy. Continue reading
Aug 24 More on Our Correction to Friday's Segment Paul Solman: There’s more to add to our earlier correction to Friday’s segment: We have heard from Social Security and it is indeed the case that benefits do NOT go… Continue reading
Aug 23 Correction to Friday's Segment on Inflation Paul Solman: On Friday night’s program, in a story on inflation (you can see the clip below), I reported the following: “The traditional measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, is DOWN over the… Continue reading