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Making Sen$e Audiobook Series

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    Economic Paths Diverged Over 30 Years

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    9 min

    As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from two Ohio counties -- Crawford and Delaware -- that had similar incomes 30 years ago, but their economies and populations have since taken very different paths. ... Read more

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    Stress, Burnout Taking Toll

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    6 min

    Paul Solman examines the rising number of employees who are being asked to do more and more for less money. This report is part of Paul Solman's ongoing reporting on Making Sense of Financial News. ... Read more

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    How to Succeed in Business

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    11 min

    Is the aptitude for business (the legal kind) distributed among convicted criminals as it is in the general population? One seasoned executive thinks so, and believes that by hiring the cream of the ex-con crop, his company will have a leg up on the competition. Paul Solman reports as part of his Making Sen$e series. ... Read more

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    Why Hasn't Recent Technology Created More Jobs?

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    8 min

    As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman reports on why more good jobs haven't been created in recent years. Can new technological innovations create widespread job growth as past generations have seen? ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Long-Term Joblessness

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Paul Solman talks to people who have been out of work for 99 weeks or longer as part of his ongoing series on making sense of financial news. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Mortgage Meltdown

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    8 min

    In the latest report of his Making Sen$e series, Paul Solman talks to New York Times economics reporter Ed Andrews, who chronicles his personal tale of the mortgage crisis in Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown. ... Read more

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    Outside Money Flow Into Campaigns

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Paul Solman tracks the outside money pouring into some campaigns and examines how big of an influence they have. This is all part of his regular reporting on Making Sense of Financial News. ... Read more

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    Making Sense of Summer Work Visas for Foreigners

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    9 min

    Since the 1960s, the State Department has sponsored young foreigners for temporary, low-wage summer jobs in the U.S. But with high youth unemployment, some believe the program takes summer jobs away from American youth. So is the program's motivation truly "good will" or a source of cheap labor? Paul Solman reports. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Massive Financial Crisis

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    7 min

    As part of his continuing series of reports making sense of business and the economy, Paul Solman talks to MIT finance professor Andrew Lo about why he's asking Congress to keep investigating the financial crisis. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    So You Have a Liberal Arts Degree

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    5 min

    In a follow-up to his report last month on the unforgiving job market for recent college grads, Paul Solman looks at graduates who've already been out of school for several years and are still struggling to find employment in their areas of interest. It's part of his ongoing series of reports on Making Sen$e of financial news. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Making $ense: Foreclosure Crisis

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    10 min

    Paul Solman speaks with Alyssa Katz, author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us, about how a decades-long government push to expand homeownership exacerbated the foreclosure crisis. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Keynes vs. Hayek

    Making Sen$e

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...
    Series series Making Sen$e

    Unabridged

    8 min

    As part of his continuing series Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman at PBS has a unique look at the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, who first introduced the concept of government intervention in the economy, and his countertenor Friedrich Hayek. ... Read more

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