Jul 20 Watch News Wrap: Spain Passes Austerity Measures to Fix Debt Crisis, Citizens Protest In other news Friday, Spaniards gathered in 80 Spanish cities to protest austerity measures. Also, the U.S. Treasury Department warns benchmarks for global interest rates are still flawed. This announcement comes three weeks after Barclays Bank admitted to falsifying 2007… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch News Wrap: Eurozone Agrees to Spain Bailout Package; Oil Prices Fall In other news Tuesday, Spain will get its first bailout payment of more than $36 billion before the end of the month. In early trading on Wall Street, stocks moved higher, but gains were erased by falling oil prices. Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Paul Krugman on Europe ‘Doing the Unthinkable’ Paul Krugman's view on Spain's euro-woes and what Germany should do about it. Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch Is Spain ‘in Denial’ Over Growing Banking Crisis? As Spain secured up to $125 billion from the eurozone to bolster its ailing banks, early optimism was overshadowed by worries that the amount might not be enough. Judy Woodruff discusses the bailout with Douglas Rediker of the New America… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch How Vulnerable Is U.S. Over Europe’s Economic Troubles? European leaders must stabilize their financial system to create a stronger eurozone, President Obama said Friday, urging them to act on the growing debt crisis. Jeffrey Brown, economist Nariman Behravesh and Drew Greenblatt of Marlin Steel Wire Products discuss how… Continue watching
Jun 08 In Spain, a Disturbing Lack of Confidence Bank of Spain in Madrid. Photo by Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images. It's "Pain in Spain" week here at Making Sen$e. Thus far we've featured a two-part dispatch from former New York Times correspondent Ana Westley. Today, her husband… Continue reading
Jun 07 Is Everyone Sharing the Pain in Spain? Church of Our Lady of Incarnation in Spain. Photo by SantiMB via Flickr Creative Commons. In the second part of her dispatch from Spain, former New York Times correspondent and friend of Making Sen$e, Ana Westley describes the… Continue reading
Jun 06 More Pain in Spain People take part in a protest in front of a BBVA bank office in Barcelona. Photo by Josep Lago AFP/Getty Images This week here at Making Sen$e, we'll be featuring dispatches from Europe's financial front lines - mainly and… Continue reading
Jun 06 More Pain in Spain By Paul Solman People take part in a protest in front of a BBVA bank office in Barcelona. Photo by Josep Lago AFP/Getty Images This week here at Making Sen$e, we'll be featuring dispatches from Europe's financial front lines - mainly and plainly,… Continue reading
May 24 Watch In Europe, Balancing Germany’s Austerity Push With Hopes for Growth After an inconclusive meeting of European leaders in Brussels ended Wednesday, new data showed a worsening economic contraction throughout the continent. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching