Column: This innovation could lead to the next financial crisis
In 1987 it was portfolio insurance; for the Great Recession in 2008 it was securitization. The obvious candidate for the next crisis is Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.
How Jared Kushner and others gerrymander to sell visas to foreigners — at a steep discount
Trump Bay Street is a model of luxury as well as a model of a loophole U.S. developers use in a controversial citizenship-for-cash program.
How have Chicken Little’s investments fared in this rough year for stocks?
Terry Burnham is the “Chicken Little” of finance because of his repeated calls that the Dow will plummet. So how does Burnham invest his own money?…
Column: What’s really at stake in the EB-5 investor visa overhaul: honesty
The scandal is not what's illegal, it's what's legal.
The EB-5 visa program allows foreign investors to obtain green cards, provided they invest $500,000 to $1 million. The program is up for reauthorization in Congress, and as economics correspondent Paul Solman reports, there is some controversy over whether or…
Nigeria is a nation of superlatives. It’s Africa's richest country and its fastest growing economy. At the same time, millions still live in poverty and lack basic services like running water. As part of a week-long series "Nigeria: Pain and…
Small investors could soon be another source of start-up cash for budding entrepreneurs. NewsHour wants to know what you think about the proposed changes. Take our poll and sound off.
President Obama announced billions of dollars in new public and private investment in Africa’s rapidly growing markets -- on everything from construction to banking to clean energy infrastructure -- at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. Gwen Ifill talks to…
Unlike conventional financial planning methods, which force your standard of living to adjust each year to annual changes, Larry Kotlikoff explains how an economics approach protects your standard of living.
Support PBS NewsHour:
