When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sat down today for a "conversation" with Dean Susan M. Collins of the... READ MORE

The United States of America isn’t going to default on its debt, even if Congress doesn’t increase the statutory... READ MORE

Lots of people want to get rid of the debt ceiling, the federal government's statutory borrowing limit. When one... READ MORE

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In the run-up, or slow walk, to the fiscal cliff, credit rating agencies warned that a failure to reach an agreement to... READ MORE

I remember when I knew for sure that soaring home prices had gone beyond “froth” to attain bubble status. It was... READ MORE

Who were these people, gathered on the afternoon of New Year's Eve to fete the president as a deal to avert the fiscal... READ MORE

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Ever since the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C., technological innovation has been improving our... READ MORE

In his Dec. 20 New York Times column trashing -- who else? -- Republicans, Princeton University economist Paul Krugman... READ MORE