Reuters Video: Newsmakers

NEWSMAKER: Liberian President on road to peace & prosperity

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:43:00 -0400

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, discusses her administration’s development goals and challenges at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in Washington, D.C.

NEWSMAKER: Liberia must become a manufacturing economy

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:33:01 -0400

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says her country must move away from its reliance on commodity exports and won't be able to sustain job growth unless it focuses on manufacturing.

NEWSMAKER: Liberia will reform land ownership law, education

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:11:33 -0400

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the audit of her country's government has not dampened growth momentum, and feels further reforms will be implemented in land laws and in education

NEWSMAKER: Liberian stability will bring foreign investment

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:41:58 -0400

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says political stability and targeted double-digit growth will increase foreign interest, and is confident companies like Chevron and Exxon will invest there.

NEWSMAKER: Larry Summers on challenges to the economy

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:00 -0400

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Reuters' Chrystia Freeland discuss global economic growth, the future of higher education and whether you should get a law degree.

Summers: U.S. economy best in 15 years

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:38:00 -0400

May 16 - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says he feels good about the economy after several rough patches. He also says there’s a global shift on austerity.

Summers: Colleges completely different in a decade

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:06:00 -0400

May 16 -Larry Summers, ex-president of Harvard University, says colleges will focus much more on providing job-relevant skills.

Summers: Ease sequester, spend on infrastructure

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:44:00 -0400

May 16 - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says the long-term consequences of the budget deficit aren't as bad as previously believed and says this is the ideal time to make infrastructure repairs.

Summers: Economists wrong on Europe

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:17:00 -0400

May 16 - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says economists aren't thinking about the euro zone in the right way and says there's a sense that the union is more important than the virtue of the currency.

Buffett: American biz "doing very well"

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:24:00 -0400

May 06 - Warren Buffett says not only is American business doing very well, there is also value in the stock market, for investors who use the right investment strategy. Bobbi Rebell reports.