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Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Arrogance, Ignorance Recurring in Economic History
Paul Solman speaks with economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff about the financial crisis and how it compares to previous...
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Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: AFL-CIO's 'Bulldog' Trumka Faces Dwindling Ranks
As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka works to shield organized labor from the excesses of big businesses, he faces many challenges,...
Key Concepts: Employment/Unemployment, Financial Institutions 1, Phillips Curve 1…
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Making Sense of the Foreclosure Crisis
Paul Solman speaks with an author about how a decades-long government push to expand home ownership exacerbated the foreclosure crisis.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Hints of a Meltdown in Commercial Real Estate
Is the commercial real estate market the next shoe to drop in the U.S. economy? Paul Solman reports.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Brazil's President on the G-20, Emerging Markets
Paul Solman interviews Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula de Silva at the G-20 about the role of developing nations in...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How are World's Economies Faring?
Paul Solman asks small business owners from around the world how the economy is faring in their home countries.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: IMF Chief Seeks New Global Finance Rules
Ahead of an upcoming meeting of the G-20, Paul Solman speaks with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The Man Behind the Lehman Brothers Collapse
Paul Solman reports on Lehman Bros.' fall from storied Wall Street investment bank to a catalyst for the worst economic...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Realities of the Recession and Changing Workforce
Paul Solman looks at the faces and places that illustrate the realities of the recession and Jeffrey Brown talks to...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Few Glimmers of Hope for Many Unemployed Americans
With long-term unemployment at a record high, the nation's jobless are taking little solace in recent data that suggests the...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Efforts to Revive Economy Test Inflation Theories
The threat of inflation is testing the Federal Reserve as it works to determine how to unwind emergency moves taken...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The High Cost of Discount Culture in the U.S.
Economic correspondent Paul Solman looks at the effects of Americans' obsession with low prices as part of his "Making Sense""...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Problem of Transparency Nothing New to the Fed
As questions arise about the Federal Reserve's transparency, Paul Solman looks at the agency's attempts to balance public disclosure and...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: For Some, Finding Work Proves Extra Difficult
Paul Solman reports on how certain types of jobless people, such as executives and ex-convicts, are struggling to find employment.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Many Left Uncounted in Official Jobless Rate
In this economics video, Paul Solman talks about the unemployment rate vs Jobless Rate.
Key Concepts: Employment/Unemployment, Phillips Curve 1, Unemployment 1
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Deciphering the Shape of Economic Recovery
Paul Solman explains what economists mean when they talk about the "shape"" of economic recovery."
