Jul 18 Watch Debate Over Consumer Agency Continues as Obama Taps Cordray to Lead President Obama tapped former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Judy Woodruff leads a debate over the agency's role, responsibilities and funding with the Roosevelt Institute's Jeff Madrick and David Hirschmann of the… Continue watching
Jul 18 Were We Too Easy on Lincoln Electric? EmbedVideo(1006, 514, 320); Watch 'Cleveland Manufacturer Welds Together Job Security, Profits.' We received a flurry of worried responses to our Lincoln Electric story from Wednesday night. They deserve an airing and a reply. First, from Dean Brown… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Cleveland Manufacturer Welds Together Job Security, Profits Paul Solman looks at a Cleveland company that's handled the economic turmoil differently. Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch Share and Share Alike This is the 1992 version of an unlikely rust belt success story. Continue watching
Jul 13 The No-Layoff Company — in Ohio By Paul Solman // Editor's Note: On Wednesday's program, a look at an improbable Rust Belt success story. With a guaranteed no-layoff policy and average pay of almost $70,000 this year, Lincoln Electric is atypical of U.S. companies. We last visited the… Continue reading
Jul 13 The No-Layoff Company — in Ohio By Paul Solman // Editor's Note: On Wednesday's program, a look at an improbable Rust Belt success story. With a guaranteed no-layoff policy and average pay of almost $70,000 this year, Lincoln Electric is atypical of U.S. companies. We last visited the… Continue reading
Jul 07 How an English Investor Dabbled in Cleveland Real Estate…and Got Burned By Paul Solman Video edited by Elizabeth Shell. As a follow-up to Tuesday’s story on abandoned housing demolition in Cleveland, we’re posting a short video. A show-and-tell about one vacant property, it covers all the bases – from… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch How an English Investor Dabbled in Cleveland Real Estate… and Got Burned A show-and-tell about a vacant property from the bank unloading it to a buyer in England. Continue watching
Jul 07 How an English Investor Dabbled in Cleveland Real Estate…and Got Burned By Paul Solman // Video edited by Elizabeth Shell. As a follow-up to Tuesday's story on abandoned housing demolition in Cleveland, we're posting a short video: A show-and-tell about one vacant property, it covers all the bases - from the… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Raze the Roof: Cleveland Levels Vacant Homes to Revive Neighborhoods Business correspondent Paul Solman reports from Cleveland on the economically troubled Ohio city's efforts to tear down thousands of empty foreclosed homes in hopes of putting eyesore and dangerous properties back to productive use -- perhaps as community gardens, new… Continue watching