It’s that time again when jobs open up across Washington and the big shuffle starts: People on Wall Street angle for key economic policymaking jobs,...

There has been a vast and important change of mind among the electorate, regarding the issue of taxes. On 13 July 2012, McClatchy Newspapers headline...

CEO Math is what results after drinking an ideological Red Bull. Suitably buzzed, you then begin to do arithmetic to maximize short-term profits -- regardless of whether your math is legal, ethical, good for business in the long-term

The current economic policy priority should be to reduce the rate of unemployment down to 4 percent and subsequently seeking policies to reduce deficit and debt after the economy is robust.

It's understandable for people like me -- people who saw Governor Mitt Romney as America's best hope for economic recovery and prosperity -- to be devastated by the election results. However, I was raised to appreciate the value of democracy and see the positive in any situation.

Manufacturing has been a key driver of what limited economic recovery we have had since 2009. On the surface, Obama and Romney seem to have roughly the same economic goals, but as we have seen, their plans for reaching these objectives differ greatly.

The Three R's -- Romney, Ryan and the Republicans -- are trying to sell the American people a more than 80-year-old used car that has been through two terrible crashes: one in 1929, the other in 2008.

There's a long list of what the candidates didn't say about housing: not a word about refinancing, principal reductions, selling government-owned foreclosed homes, or the mortgage interest deduction. Why wasn't there more debate over housing?

Obviously the strategy in the debates is "move to the middle" and don't scare fence-sitters in the swing states. But that doesn't mean confusing the heck out of them about whether you're different from the other guy.

Wouldn't it be great if the Congress that exacerbated our current situation were held responsible for their grade school behavior which brought on our current financial situation, paying higher taxes until things right themselves, even if it's after some get voted out of office?

I have resisted joining the chorus that is criticizing the Romney-Ryan campaign for their policy flip-flops, inconsistent and insensitive campaign sta...

Today the economic pain in the nation is real, but for many Americans there has been an economic recovery. America has come a long way since Obama took office.

A "social issue" is where to seat people at a dinner table. It's code for "lady things" -- these are words whose only purpose is to trivialize ideas central to our future well-being and democracy by virtue of associating them with women.

The prominent Republican economist Milton Friedman, in a 15 January 2003 Wall Street Journal op-ed "What Every American Wants," said: "I never met a t...

Even leaving the 2009 job losses out of the calculation, jobs were created under Clinton's policies at a rate nearly eight times faster than they were during the second Bush's business- and high-income-friendly policies -- precisely the policies of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

The greatest lesson of Citizens United may be just how heinously expensive it is to sell policies that don't work.

One cannot read Why Nations Fail during this campaign season without recognizing on every page the authors' criteria for successful nations fulfilled by President Obama's built-to-last economic policies and the failing nations' policies being consciously pursued by Romney-Ryan.