PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission says an Ohio man, his son and his daughter pocketed millions they raised from investors...

Recent vilification of the Fed and claims that a gold standard can solve U.S. economic problems are without empirical foundation.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday took aim at proponents of the gold standard, saying that such a sy...

Democrats and progressives must become more willing to engage in monetary policy conversation and make the case for keeping the Fed, for using QE and stimulus to get America out of recession, and for more robust financial regulation.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economist and New York Times columnist, said Tuesday that the United States needs to spend on a scale ...

It looks like gold will hit $2,011 an ounce in 2011 as the permanent drop in Western living standards continues apace.

Austrians prefer limited government -- limited to enforcing contracts made voluntarily between free individuals. They don't want government to print and inflate money as that allows them covertly to reduce private wealth, transferring it to themselves.

It's what the treacherous and fluctuating investment arena is all about. One day you're a hero. The next day, you're a bum. Take gold, the darling of the safe-haven crowd.

Even if 2011 has gotten off to a rough start for gold, everyone knows that the value of gold is at historic highs. What is interesting is that there ...

On the Colbert Report Tuesday night, Rep. Ron Paul and NYT reporter David Leonhardt went mano-a-mano over the value of gold (or, the "lepriconomy," as...