Paul Solman (@paulsolman) profile picture

Business and Economics Correspondent for PBS NewsHour

Boston 10 mile radius
Joined December 2008
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Yes, we considered interviewing President Levine, but were focusing on public universities. I was a freshman there your senior year.
.@paulsolman I just watched your @NewsHour segment on attending college, its costs, availability of work, etc. Have you checked in with Brandeis University & its new curriculum approach relating to these issues? If not, you should. I admit I’m an alumnus from ancient times, 1963.
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For teachers who may be reading this exchange, I am still available to visit classrooms, especially high school classrooms in economics, by Zoom. A journalism classrooms as well.
Hi @paulsolman it's been some years, but I still think fondly of your visits to my classroom (virtually) in Warsaw and Beijing. I'm glad to see you're still at it I was watching your segment recently and was wondering about your tie. Is it a brown trout? Looks a little fishy
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Those were fun, Kevin. The tie: a collaboration of sorts with Paul Klee, moving a tie-shaped template over a Klee image. Have ordered a few different ones via Zazzle.
Hi @paulsolman it's been some years, but I still think fondly of your visits to my classroom (virtually) in Warsaw and Beijing. I'm glad to see you're still at it I was watching your segment recently and was wondering about your tie. Is it a brown trout? Looks a little fishy
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Ah, voice recognition again hard of hearing: Renewed push to sign on high schools and hs teachers or principles for what's been called "America's best kept secret" and the best antidote to polarization in the country: the American Exchange Project. americanexchangeproject.org/
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Renewed push to side on high schools and high school teachers are principles for what's been called "America's best kept secret" and the best antodote to polarization in the country: the American Exchange Project. americanexchangeproject.org
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Thanks, Paul. While your story is about USA, there are lessons to apply in Canada as well. A few years ago, I dealt with bailiff here who plays dirty, knowingly putting my house up for sale without serving my bank, nor did realtor he works with follow law on listing my property.
Then you might be interested in our story last night on zombie mortgages, if you haven't seen it already: youtu.be/3drD5g6nL_8
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Then you might be interested in our story last night on zombie mortgages, if you haven't seen it already: youtu.be/3drD5g6nL_8
I'm engineer w 35+ yrs experience and think I can discern good science: even econ + poli sci. I look for clear logic, quality evidence, and willingness to answer questions. Also: • @humphreys_brad • @andrew_leach • @trevortombe • @DuaneBratt • @paulsolman (correspondent)
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Just interesting.
Isn’t this only relevant if they would have accepted the offer? That’s the value of the gold today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Greenland’s value has increased by the same amount.
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And more than $10 billion in silver.
@paulsolman Here's some fun math for the @PBS @NewsHour person using the official BLS inflation calculator for the Greenland tidbit numbers. Yes, $100 million in 1946 is $1.8 billion inflation adjusted dollars, but adjusted for the offer's price in gold, it's $13.3 billion!
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Meant material gains, but perhaps should have added the adjective.
Please explain why you frame mothers leaving the workforce to stay home & raise their young children as "erasing gains."
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It's detestable to respond politely to your tweet?
I am going to point out, once again, that this thread has been edited by PBS or Paul Solman, a practice in line with PBS's techniques, which are, in my opinion, detestable.
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The more I think about it, the more I tend to disagree with you about this. I don't think there's any judgment implied when most people use this term, even though I don't use it. It could just be every day people as opposed to those who think they're high and mighty, no?
Well a lot of people use it; I don't think they understand what they are revealing about their worldviews.
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This has nothing to do with DEI, Pete (is it?). We're lowercase D:diversity of every kind. If you watch the videos linked on our website, from places including FOX&friends, you'll see that there's no agenda besides getting kids to learn about the America outside their oen bubble.
😄After 60 yrs of DEI, are you that naive? Lib Media-Educ trainings are layered with WashDC/NYC/Inner City bias. We all know what Kory Loyola means, 1) She'll chose the questions, 2) Frame them for her benefit and then 3) We listen to her ignorant explanation. Here is Science>
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I did stories about both a few years ago but you're right, we should've mentioned what's happened to their price in comparison. So I just looked it up and it seems both of them have risen in price by noticeable amounts but not nearly as much as beef. In the past 12 months.
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Tweets like this raise doubt the Tweeter has watched the story, in which Beth Akers of the conservative AEI argued forcefully for repayment, & even one of the debtors agreed. Or just reflex anger that undermines civil discourse? Reminds me to reread Carol Tavris' book Anger.
You mean, you have to pay loans back? So unfair!
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Apologies for almost never posting, but reading Mary Renault's The Last of the Wine about Athens in the time of Socrates, how about this sentence: "half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult."
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Yup, with a slight arithmetic tweak. Paul Samuelson: “The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.” This line appeared in his Newsweek column on September 19, 1966.
Replying to @paulsolman
So this is another "confidently predicted ten of the last two" situations?
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From close personal friend and housemate ChatGPT: Adjusting for inflation:    •   The 1989 peak of 38,915 would be about 46,000–48,000 yen in 2025 yen.    •   The current level (around 41,000) is therefore still below that inflation-adjusted high.
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At least the Nikkei 🇯🇵has recovered from its 1989 high - it only took around 35 yrs😐
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Oh sure, Vincent -- countless ex-ante bubble analyses over the centuries. Only problem is, many of them have been wrong or misleadingly premature.
Replying to @paulsolman
Paul, have you ever heard a compelling definition of a bubble that didn’t rely on retrospective analysis (or flat-out handwaving)?
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