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What job growth? Voters remain pessimistic about the economy
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now the start of a new election-year series about the economic lives of Americans, the frustrations many face trying to get ahead, and the forces shaping...
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Column: Are we headed for a recession?
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Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has experienced two consecutive quarters of declining growth, something that's being pegged to attacks on...
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Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In "Lords of Finance: the Bankers Who Broke the World," Liaquat Ahamed examines the events leading up to and resulted in the Great Depression...
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Column: I’m predicting an economic recession in 2017. Are you ready?
Job seekers wait on line outside the Metropolitan Pavilion before the start of a job fair in New York. Photo by Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMy outlook for 2017 and beyond is that the U.S....
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Is Obama’s economic legacy one of missed opportunity or success?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioSTEVE INSKEEP: We’re going to dig a little deeper now into the economic legacy of President Obama.He came into office at a desperate moment, amid a financial crisis and...
View ArticleA Couple Enters Adulthood as the Economy Crashes
Author Anna Pitoniak, an editor at Random House, joins us to discuss her debut novel, The Futures, which tells the story of Julia and Evan, two recent college graduates who come of age at the start of...
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How the housing crisis boxed in some job seekers
Owning homes in distressed housing markets reduced job seekers’ mobility, damaging their long-term career prospects. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/ReutersEach month, the NBER Digest summarizes several recent...
View ArticleMapping New Jersey's Income Inequality
New Jersey is home to some of the wealthiest people in the country - and some of the poorest. And according to the latest census data, that gap has only gotten wider since the recession.To better...
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Just nine months into his presidency, Donald Trump has only begun to form a government. But we already have a new book. One Nation after Trump is subtitled "A Guide for the Perplexed, the Desperate and...
View ArticleRepublicans Roll Back Dodd-Frank Regulations Passed After Recession
Congress passed a partial rollback of Dodd-Frank on Tuesday. In a bipartisan move, the House voted 258-159 to exempt free thousands of small and medium-sized banks from Dodd-Frank rules. The reforms...
View ArticleDe-Shaming the Struggle to Stay Middle Class
Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco, 2018), argues American policies make raising families...
View ArticleA Sign of Future Recession
By all accounts, the U.S. economy is doing well, and has been for a long time. Unemployment is at an 18-year low, businesses are growing and the stock market has been on a historic, bullish climb. But...
View ArticleOne Financial Crisis, Many Explanations
It's been nearly ten years to the day since Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy amidst a worldwide financial whirlpool. Since then, there's been a lot of diagnosing, obfuscating, blaming and explaining...
View ArticleWild Swings on Wall Street Have Economists Worried About Recession
After a December in which major stock market indexes lost significant amounts of value, a day-after-Christmas rebound saw record gains as Wall Street reacted to signs of strong consumer holiday...
View ArticleWild Swings on Wall Street Have Economists Worried About Recession
Wild Swings on Wall Street Have Economists Worried About RecessionThe stock market is not the economy, and the economy is not the stock market. Yet the recent volatility is a troubling sign.How...
View ArticleHow Close is the Next Recession?
Last Thursday, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released numbers showing that the U.S. economy expanded at a rate of 3.1% during the second fiscal quarter that started in...
View ArticleAre We Headed Towards Another Recession?
Dean Baker, macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., discusses the latest economic news, including how some economists believe the United States...
View ArticleAre We Headed Towards Another Recession?; The Crackdown in Kashmir; Axelrod &...
Coming up on today's show:Dean Baker, macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., discusses the latest economic news, including how some economists...
View ArticleThe Class of 2010 Reflects on the Decade
Listeners who graduated from high school or college in 2010 reflect on the past ten years, their first decade of adulthood.
View ArticleNew York City's Gifts (&Cost) to the Tech Sector
Sharon Zukin, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center and the author of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (Oxford...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: Governing, the Economy, and Coronavirus
This week, a look at the way coronavirus is reshaping our worldview.Louisiana was the first state to postpone their primary contest as a result of the ongoing public health pandemic. Several states...
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: Governing, the Economy, and Coronavirus
This week, a look at the way coronavirus is reshaping our worldview.Louisiana was the first state to postpone their primary contest as a result of the ongoing public health pandemic. Several states...
View ArticleWe Explain The Stimulus Bill and Defense Act Ventilator Dispute
As the economy crashes amid the coronavirus pandemic, Catherine Rampell, syndicated opinion columnist at The Washington Post, political and economic commentator at CNN and special correspondent at PBS...
View ArticleCan Trump Avoid a Post-Coronavirus Great Depression?
Two weeks ago, Congress passed a two-trillion-dollar stimulus bill aimed at mitigating the damage the coronavirus is doing to the American economy. With the stock market flagging and unemployment...
View ArticleThe Economics of a Global Emergency
Everybody, in one way or another, is being impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. From our health to our social lives, so much has changed so quickly. However, the crisis is hitting some Americans...
View ArticleLosing Your $600 Benefit
Lawmakers remain at an impasse over what to include in the fifth coronavirus relief bill. Emily Cochrane, reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times covering Congress talks about what's on...
View ArticleAn Economic and Political Analysis of Trump's Unilateral Stimulus Measures
Over the weekend, President Trump attempted to provide economic relief to Americans on his own and without the approval of Congress. Trump signed four executive actions that postpone payroll taxes,...
View Article155 - Frances McDormand in Nomadland
Frances McDormand talks about her extraordinary new film—Nomadland directed by Chloe Zhao, based on the nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving in the Twenty First Century by Jessica Bruder. A tale for...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Has Pushed Women Out of the Workforce at Higher Rates Than Men
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the workforce in this country has been devastating. Back in April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. hit 14.8 percent, the highest since the great depression. Women,...
View ArticleCOVID Relief and Economic Recovery
Claudia Sahm, economist, founder of Stay-at-Home-Macro Consulting, and contributing writer to Bloomberg Opinion and New York Times Opinion, discusses the latest developments in the push for more COVID...
View ArticleThe City's Economy a Year Later
Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School...
View ArticleThe Price of a Free Market
Last Friday, the Department of Labor released its monthly jobs report, and the numbers were...disappointing. Expectations had rested around adding approximately a million jobs, and April yielded a...
View Article'Moving in 2008' Film
Writer/director/producer Calogero Carucci joins us to discuss his feature film "Movingin2008," which closed the Brooklyn Film Festival this year. The film follows a family dealing with hardship during...
View ArticleThe Delta Variant Meets the She-ceccion Economy
What does the delta variant mean for the U.S.'s economic recovery, and what does it mean for the very unequal way that the pandemic has impacted women?On Today's Show:Catherine Rampell, syndicated...
View ArticleInflation Explained And How It Might Be Solved
The annual inflation rate in the United States is running at a three decade high. So what's behind the inflation we're seeing throughout the economy? How is it landing on business owners and consumers,...
View ArticleIt Worked To Beat Inflation In The 1980s. They’re Not Considering It Now.
As we move into the new year, we wanted to check in on a persistent economic condition that's likely to impact the U.S. and the globe: inflation.On Today's Show: Neil Irwin, chief economic...
View ArticleCan’t People Have Decent Raises Without Inflation Cancelling Them Out?
Questions about the state of the economy are dominating the news, and conversations about voters' priorities heading into the midterms.On Today's Show:Jeanna Smialek, reporter covering the Federal...
View ArticleWhat's Going on with the Economy?
Jeanna Smialek, reporter covering the Federal Reserve and the economy for The New York Times, joins to break down the latest jobs numbers, the state of the economy and why some experts are warning that...
View ArticleIn This Economy?
Gas prices are coming down. Inflation is still going up. Jobs are strong, yet recession fears abound. This week, On the Media dives into the contradictory mess of money news – and what it ultimately...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Today's Strong Job Market
Recessions are normally accompanied by high unemployment. But despite all the fears and predictions that a recession is looming, today's job market boasts very strong numbers. There are around 11.3...
View ArticleWhat Gas Prices Really Say About the Economy
More than 75 percent of Americans drive to work, according to a global consumer survey conducted by polling firm Statista. But even those of us who don’t own a car have heard about the rise in gas...
View ArticleLive Shows Are Back. Why Aren’t Live Audiences Back As Much?
With COVID still weighing on people's minds, and inflation on people's wallets, has the allure of staying in kept audiences away from the return of live performances?On Today's Show:Live performers...
View ArticleInflation and You're Making Do
While gas prices may be coming down, recent data shows that inflation in many other categories is still very high. Listeners call in to share where they are feeling the squeeze the most and how they...
View ArticleThe Money Coach Offers Some Year-End Finance Tips
As holiday shopping season approaches, we receive advice from personal finance expert Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, also known as "The Money Coach" on how to take stock of your finances, deal with debt and...
View ArticleThe Big Stories of 2022; NYC's Economic Recovery Still 'Uneven'; Your Calls...
On today's show:2022 was not short on big, important news stories and cycles. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, host of The...
View ArticleNYC's Economic Recovery Still 'Uneven'
Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and the Ravitch Fiscal reporting program at the Newmark Graduate...
View ArticleLaid Off? Here's How to Bounce Back
We've all seen the news reports: Spotify, Vox, Meta...layoffs are happening everywhere. If you've been laid off or if layoffs are looming at your company, we'll speak to career coach Rob Barnett about...
View ArticleIs a Recession Coming For Us...Or Not?
Peter Coy, New York Times opinion writer covering economics, and Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty,...
View ArticleIs a Recession Coming; Why Some Young People Carry Guns; The Dangers of...
Peter Coy, New York Times opinion writer covering economics, and Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty,...
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