John McCain and his shadow army of "Nobel laureate economists" may be of the belief that the GOP nominee's economic plans - which the nominee himself ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...
NY Times | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013, economis...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
For weeks, John McCain has been fighting off the notion that his presidency would be a third Bush term, even using a prime time address -- on the nigh...
Hilary Rosen | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Rick Davis, former McCain campaign manager, told me that with the conventions taking place so late in the summer, voters' thinking about the election would be greatly affected by their summer experience.
Craig Crawford | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Whose bright idea was it to put the expected GOP nominee in Mexico of all places -- on the day that the next round of jobless numbers were coming out?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.
Danny Schechter | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
The US does not have energy independence or, for that matter, financial independence. Why? Partly because we live as if we are an island empire in an interdependent world.
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
A detailed analysis of the candidates' tax plans confirms one of Barack Obama's top arguments against John McCain: the Arizona senator's proposals wou...
Think Progress | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Writing in Avenue, "a glossy, lifestyle magazine that chronicles the lives of Manhattan's affluent and socially powerful," CNBC's Maria Bartiromo warn...
Bloomberg | Matthew Benjamin | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
George W. Bush's policies on the economy, other than on taxes, have been a failure, suggested John McCain's top economic policy adviser. Douglas Holt...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Ah, the power of Youtube. Robert Greenwald has put together another in his series: "The Real McCain" that demonstrates the Republican's tendency to p...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
Recent history has shown that John McCain's policy agenda is antithetical to his goals. Regarding the variables that matter most to working families, the neocon experiment was a particularly dramatic failure.
JB Powell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
The current economic meltdown can be traced to McCain's financial adviser. McCain wants to further deregulate capital markets and cut taxes. McCain-onomics are Bush-onomics, but more so.
Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office...
McClatchy | Matt Stearns | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Standing before a nearly shuttered factory pocked with broken windows, John McCain on Tuesday urged Americans to reject the "siren song of protectioni...
Wall Street Journal | Nick Timraos | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Policy differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been far and few, but a new one emerged on Monday over a proposed gas tax holiday. Ob...
DNC | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
The Democratic National Committee has released its first ad, which criticizes McCain's inconsistent statements on the U.S. economy: ...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
PITTSBURGH — Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the ...
Washinton Times | Stephen Dinan | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain this morning said "greedy" Wall Street investors are partly to blame for what he said is probably an economic recession the nation is...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
"When Senator John McCain was asked here this afternoon how he plans to balance the budget, he said that he hoped to do so by stimulating economic gro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics