Editorials

On Wednesday, France will become the first European country to impose a tax on financial transactions. This was a bad... READ MORE

It has been a week since the massacre in Aurora, Colorado. The two major U.S. presidential candidates spent the past... READ MORE

The London Olympics open Friday, and let’s hope they go well. The host country could use some good news. READ MORE

Do we miss earmarks yet? Though it’s only July, the second session of the 112th U.S. Congress already threatens to... READ MORE

More than three years after it hit bottom in 2009, the U.S. economy is still stuck in the mud. With Congress and the... READ MORE

So, how would Mitt Romney have the U.S. balance its concerns about Russia, its “number one geopolitical foe,” and Iran,... READ MORE

The prospect of Greece leaving the euro is infecting markets again like a recurring case of the Spanish flu. As Greece’s... READ MORE

Amid the investigations into manipulation of Libor, policy makers are coming around to the idea that the world needs a... READ MORE

Europe’s leaders were hoping their debt crisis had taken a break for the summer. On Monday, financial markets announced... READ MORE

These days, there’s a good reason fear of flying is classified as a phobia: Fatal airline accidents are exceedingly... READ MORE

Mitt Romney’s plan for taxing multinational corporations would create 800,000 jobs, according to President Barack Obama. READ MORE

In announcing that she would soon be a new mother, Marissa Mayer, the new chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., made... READ MORE