Silicon Valley Anxious as Tech Stocks Tumble
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Global oil prices are falling and Chinese leaders are scrambling as their economy buckles, but the stock market's recent tumble has also uncovered...
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With market bubbles, what goes up doesn’t always come down
Do market booms inevitably result in busts? History suggests otherwise, according to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: For 29...
View ArticleIs Another Recession Coming?
Click on the audio player above to hear this segment.Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has spent the last two days on Capitol Hill assuring Congress that the economy is under control, saying that...
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A political horse race where you can actually bet on the future president
Jockey Victor Espinoza, aboard American Pharoah (C), takes off for the start of the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes as well as the Triple Crown, in Elmont, New York on June 6, 2015. Photo by Lucas...
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You aren’t Warren Buffett. Stop trying to invest like him.
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and second wealthiest man in the United States, advises his children to invest in index funds rather than try to emulate what he did. Photo by...
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What Oprah and Warren Buffett can teach us about risk
Television personality Oprah Winfrey attends HBO’s New York premiere of the documentary “Beyonce – Life is But a Dream” in New York February 12, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew KellyWhat do Oprah Winfrey and...
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Column: How gold and art auctions can gauge stock market confidence
Just as a fall in Sotheby’s shares signals greed is receding, a spike in gold prices points to a rise in fear, writes columnist Vikram Mansharamani. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty...
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Why do so many investors believe trouble lies ahead?
In a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, researchers find that media coverage of adverse market outcomes is correlated with investor crash beliefs. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty...
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Column: The stock market doesn’t like the idea of a Trump presidency
the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on October 24, 2016. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersWhat do financial market participants think of the 2016 presidential election? It would be helpful to...
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Column: Markets were wary of a Trump presidency. What changed?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange the day after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 9, 2016. Were the pre-election and election night markets wrong to be so pessimistic about...
View ArticleThe Year That Challenged Elites
This was the year that defied predictions — the United Kingdom did indeed vote to leave the European Union, Donald Trump will be the country's 45th president and the stock market is soaring.With the...
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Column: How Chicken Little got Dow 20,000 so terribly wrong
A trader wears a hat referencing the proximity of Dow Jones Industrial Average to 20,000 as he works on floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Economist Terry Burnham predicted that the Dow Jones...
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Column: The stock market hates Trump’s economic policies
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 21, 2015. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersMost people see last week’s “Trump stock market rally” as an endorsement of the president’s...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Economy in the Trump Era
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 22,000 points for the first time. The surge in the markets is something the president often...
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After years of slow recovery, U.S. economy boasts solid gains
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: July was the second straight month of solid job gains in the United States.The Labor Department says employers added 209,000 jobs last month. That...
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Column: How can the stock market rally possibly continue?
Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersEditor’s note: Vikram Mansharamani, for years a professor at Yale and who now teaches at Harvard, is an investment consultant, public speaker on economic trends and...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash.One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash. One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleRemembering 'Black Monday'
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day drop in Wall Street history. On the 30th anniversary of the crash, Alexandra Starr, WNYC reporter, looks at the causes, and how that might...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading. These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading.These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View Article‘Hedge Fund King’ Steven Cohen Gets Back to Business
Before he was known for an insider trading scandal, Steven Cohen was known as the “hedge fund king,” bringing sky-high returns to clients at his super successful firm, SAC Capital Advisors — and...
View Article'The China Hustle' and the Coming Financial Crisis
Director Jed Rothstein discusses his new documentary, The China Hustle, along with Dan David, a Philadelphia-based investor who is featured in the film. The China Hustle is a Wall Street horror story...
View ArticleWill It Get Worse For Big Tech?
Investors call them the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — and in recent years, Wall Street has put a lot of faith in their continued success.But in the last few weeks, tech sector...
View ArticleA Wild Week of Economic News
Felix Salmon, Ideas contributor for WIRED and host of the Slate Money podcast and the Cause & Effect blog, talks about the state of the economy as GDP climbs and the stock market...
View ArticleThe Crisis Before the Financial Crisis
Ten years ago, in September 2008, Lehman Brothers failed. It marked a decisive moment in the financial crisis, one where the U.S. economy plunged into what we now know as the Great Recession. With such...
View ArticleStocks Plunge as the Fight Over Health Care Continues
Today on America On The Line, host Jonathan Capehart talks about the news of the day with senior national correspondent at HuffPost, Jonathan Cohn. Then Jonathan analyzes the headlines with opinion...
View ArticleWall Street's October Surprise
Within a hectic news cycle ahead of the midterm elections, a big story has emerged from Wall Street: October has turned out to be one of the worst months for the U.S. markets since the financial crisis...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About The Fed's Increase and Your Housing Options
You probably saw in the flurry of news last week that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a move to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point. The new range is...
View ArticleWall Street’s Automated Turmoil
After reaching records highs last year, the stock market went south in the final months of 2018. In the end, it was the worst year for markets since the 2008 crisis and the worst December since...
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 ArticleWill the Interest Rate Cut Stem a Potential Coronavirus Recession?
This week, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point, which in the context of interest rates is a dramatic move. We have not seen a cut like this one since 2008. The hope was to...
View ArticleStock Market Update
Greg David, director of the business and economics reporting program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, a Crain's New York Business columnist and the author of Modern New York:...
View ArticleEconomics in the Time of Corona
Adam DavidsonNew Yorker staff writer, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, CEO of the podcast production company Three Uncanny Four, and the author ofThe Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Economy; 2020 Prize Michigan; The Benefits of Salary...
Coming up on today's show: Adam Davidon,New Yorker staff writer, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, CEO of the podcast production company Three Uncanny Four, and the author of The Passion Economy: The...
View ArticleUncharted Waters for the Global Economy
The pandemic is causing shock waves through the world economy. “This is much bigger than 2008,” says John Cassidy, who covers economics and politics for The New Yorker. But projecting the economic...
View ArticleHow To Value A Life
This week, the world was alit with a foundational clash over the relative value of human lives, with the president and right-wing politicians and pundits framing the choice before us as being between...
View ArticleDid Lulz Break Wall Street?
GameStop is a corporation that sells digital cartridges containing video games, and also video game consoles and other fun widgets, from brick-and-mortar stores to flesh-and-blood consumers. It is a...
View ArticleDid Lulz Break Wall Street?
GameStop is a corporation that sells digital cartridges containing video games, and also video game consoles and other fun widgets, from brick-and-mortar stores to flesh-and-blood consumers. It is a...
View ArticleWho Invests in Private Prisons? We All Do.
Every Tuesday evening through May 4th, The Greene Space and the non-profit advocacy organization Worth Rises are holding virtual panel discussions about the business side of the prison industry,...
View ArticleGood As Gold
Mainstream journalists keep falling for crypto scams that can end up costing their audiences a fortune. On this week’s On the Media, hear why all of us might want to become at least a bit literate in...
View ArticleA Giant Pool of... Non-Fungible Tokens?
When the stock market was just beginning to teeter on the edge of collapse in 2008, Adam Davison's project Planet Money was getting ready to be released. At the time, he viewed the project as part of...
View ArticleThe Latest on Inflation, the Markets and the Broader Economy
Greg Ip, chief economics commentator at The Wall Street Journal, talks about the latest news on the economy, including the persistent high prices, the stock market sell-off and more as President Biden...
View ArticlePizza, Eggs and Baby Formula Meet The Midterm Elections
With baby formula shortages and rising grocery costs, we explore the economic situation in the US and around the world.On Today's Show:Greg Ip, chief economics commentator at The Wall Street Journal,...
View ArticleSo Who Decides It's A Recession?
Recently in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson wrote a piece called “The Everything-Is-Weird Economy.” Don’t you feel it? The stories don’t make sense — or maybe, they sort of do on Tuesday, but not so much...
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