Too often, the rich and powerful try to insulate our presidents from the pain and suffering which results from unemployment or under-employment.

For the second time in little over a year, the Obama Administration has made a pre-emptive offer to change the formula for adjusting Social Security's Cost of Living Adjustment formula as part of a "Grand Bargain." What is at stake?

We need national economic policy, and President Obama yesterday articulated one to make us globally competitive with energy, education, infrastructure and innovation. He is moving us forward.

ELYRIA, Ohio — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his Republican rivals are sincere, patriotic and absolutely wrong about how to reinvig...

Since he debuted on the political stage with the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention, Republicans have suspected that Barack Obama was a Marxist. It turns out they were right: He's Groucho.

WASHINGTON — Foreign policy challenges are intruding on President Barack Obama's promise to focus on the economy after the Democrats' election d...

In his final public remarks as head of President Obama's National Economic Council on Monday morning, Larry Summers, to no one's surprise, had nothin...

The administration seems intent on shooting itself and Democrats in the foot by appointing a conservative pro-business executive rather than a proven fighter for the economic interests of the middle class.

There are those who believe that there's not a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans: that it really doesn't matter who is elected. Those people are wrong.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also f...

Ask a Republican to name a single economic program they support that was not part of George W. Bush's economic plan just before the economy collapsed, and wait for the answer. You will hear crickets chirping.

While the Obama Administration might engage in antitrust saber rattling, its approval of Live Nation-Ticketmaster shows the triumph of economic reasoning that is often counterintuitive to policy advocates.

WASHINGTON — One year in, President Barack Obama faces a perilous economic choice. He can't pull back the stimulus too quickly, despite the publ...