John McCain has a fundamentals problem. It is political as well as economic, and it remains the biggest obstacle standing between the Arizona senator ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
Some fiery rhetoric just now from Barack Obama on the campaign trail, as the Illinois Democrat ripped into McCain for a couple of questionable stateme...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
Despite a massive financial crisis rocking Wall Street and several days of lashing from media fact-checkers, the McCain campaign is still hammering aw...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.18.2008 | Media
Yesterday morning on the Today Show, John McCain was angry, wooden and sulky. But more than that, he seemed not to have a clue what he was talking about.
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
We need a systemic disinfectant and deterrent factor when it comes to Wall Street. An independent investigation with non-partisan, disinterested experts is a damn good start.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
Hours after the Obama campaign released an economic-themed television ad with the Senator speaking directly into the camera, the McCain campaign put o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
What exactly has McCain had "enough" of? The sorts of deregulation that he and his cronies have championed for many, many years, that propelled this current crisis?
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business
"Obama's diagnosis that our financial sector is in desperate shape is correct. And if it is in desperate shape, that means our economy is in desperate shape."
Jesse Lee | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign now claims that when McCain said "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" he was actually talking about American workers. If you believe that, I've got some ad time to sell you.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The American mortgage market now provides us with another clear example of how the fundamental premise of right-wing economic thought is dead wrong.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The Obama camp, sensing blood, released a new ad this morning taking John McCain to task for calling the fundamentals of the economy "strong" in the m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
John McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector. On the campaign trai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
How dramatically the tone of the presidential campaign has shifted in just a few days. Last week, it was John McCain who was hitting Barack Obama on c...
Grant Cardone | Posted 10.04.2008 | Business
If you think the outcome of the 2008 election is going to resolve your situation you will be sadly disappointed regardless of which party wins.
Bill Scher | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
The pressure will now be on Sen. John McCain next week to either defend the conservative vision or acknowledge its failures and respond with new ideas.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
We've spent the last 8 years not making tough choices that need to be made. Now we have two presidential hopefuls who would continue that trend.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
News reports surfaced from Time Magazine late Thursday night that John McCain had settled on a running mate: Mitt Romney. If this is true -- and in t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
A new Obama campaign ad hammering John McCain on the economy bears a striking resemblance to an ad produced several months ago by an outside Democrati...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Here's another instance of how the political dynamics differ between a primary fight and a general election campaign. One of Barack Obama's most resp...
AP | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A top economic surrogate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't think people are paying much attention to what p...
Michael Likosky | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
Our economic recovery depends upon not only rehabilitating our national infrastructure, but also on large scale investment in state-of-the-art new projects.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Americans aren't whining. They are voicing their justified frustration with policies that put profits over people. They have had it with politicians who stand in the way of change.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign is working hard to distance itself from statements made by economic adviser Phil Gramm describing the current economic downturn as...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR RESPONSES FROM THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, THE DNC, AND OBAMA CAMPAIGN*** In an interview with the Washington Times, McCain's top economi...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
On Monday, John McCain's campaign released a statement signed by 300 economists who "enthusiastically support" his "Jobs for America" economic plan. T...
Washington Post | Dan Balz | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics