Business and Economics Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Paul Solman has been demystifying money matters (and, occasionally, art, sports and journalism itself) for over 25 years. With energy and wit he engages and empowers his audiences, from CEOs and MBAs to undergraduates, making business and economics comprehensible and fun.
The winner of two Peabody Awards and Emmy Awards in every decade since the ‘70’s, he has been named to TV Guide’s All-Star News “dream team.” Using every device he can think of — from teaching the tricks of Enron’s “accounting alchemy” with a magic wand and disappearing dollars to explaining earnings growth with tortilla dough — Solman has illuminated hundreds of economics stories on topics both sober (NAFTA, Cuba, Social Security reform) and light (the workings of the circus and the NFL).
In recent years his NewsHour reporting has included a seven- part series on the rise of China and a series on the business response to global warming. He has taught at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and is the and is Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy at Yale University.
This year on The NewsHour, Solman has been doing a year-long series, “America’s Response to Globalization,” exploring the global economic challenges facing the United States, including such issues as the manufacturing renaissance in the Midwest, the export revival in California, the alternative energy revolutioin in Pittsburgh and how to create the next generation of competitive Americans. He's also been explaining hedge funds, the subprime crisis and most recently "moral hazard" at the Fed as only Solman can.
“Paul Solman is fabulous -- from translating Greenspanish to making the economy (almost) riveting -- his analyses are wonderfully clear, lively, and... dare I say it? Fun.”- World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
