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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: FDIC's Bair: Bank Bailouts Were 'Not a Good Idea'

In an interview with Paul Solman, FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair discusses lessons learned from the financial crisis.

Key Concepts: Credit, Economic Institutions, Risk and Return…

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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: FDIC's Sheila Bair Answers Your Questions

FDIC Chair Sheila Bair answers NewsHour viewer's questions on too big to fail, the power of the banking lobby, and...

Key Concepts: Credit, Economic Institutions, Roles of Government

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Freelancers Struggle As Unemployment Worsens

As part of his series Makiing Sense of the financial crisis, Paul Solman looks at how freelancers are faring in...

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

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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Freelancers Lack Safety Net When Jobs Are Scarce

Sara Horowitz, founder of the Freelancers Union, explains why freelancers still lack many of the protections afforded to other workers.

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment…

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Grades 9-12

Okun's Law

The students sharpen their graphing skills by interpreting the relationship between changes in the unemployment rate (%) and real GDP....

Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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