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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...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment…

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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: Business Costs and Revenues, Distribution of Income, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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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.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Economic Institutions, Roles of Government

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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.

Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services…

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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...

Key Concepts: Distribution of Income, Economic Development, Economic Institutions…

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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.

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Economic Development, Economic Institutions…

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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...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Cycles, Economic Development…

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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...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Economic Institutions, Money…

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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...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment

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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...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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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...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy

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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""...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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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...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions

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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.

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment

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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 and Unemployment

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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."

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy

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