President Barack Obama rejected the notion that his policies rang of socialism on Thursday, arguing that his platform was more similar to a "moderate ...
If President Barack Obama loses in November, he may have no one but himself to blame. The "Strother Martin Syndrome" has marred the president's first term.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gets mediocre marks for his handling of the economy and Mitt Romney easily outpolls his Republican rivals in an A...
I would be willing to sacrifice a second term, if I believed that my successor could and would do the things necessary to get your bacon out of the fire.
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Friday's dismal employment report, which reported no net change in the number of U.S. jobs, Top officials in the Democrat...
WASHINGTON -- Lost in this week's announcement that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be leaving the White Hous...
BEIJNG (AP) -- A top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday he sees no short-term way to reduce high U.S. unemployment and expects sl...
Gene Sperling, the Treasury official widely expected to take over as President Obama's chief economic adviser, is the sort of figure who has been arou...
The bargain broke down when middle-class America buckled under global competition and labor-replacing technology. Reich blames what happened next on t...
The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure progr...
Tuesday's elections show Americans are still looking for change. They are casting protest votes in both parties. But the real battle about direction has only just begun.
President Barack Obama's expansion of the federal government into the financial sector is likely to have "devastating" effects in the long term, forme...
It was on Summers' watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched. It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than his were.
The Obama transition team put out a video on Sunday detailing the job creation components of their proposed stimulus legislation.
Putting aside, for ...
Barack Obama said today that he never expected the process of crafting a stimulus package to be easy and that he welcomed any idea, regardless of auth...
Obama is calling on Congress to pass a stimulus package that will cost $700B or more over two years. That could create 2.5M jobs in the first year and a total of 5M jobs in the first two years.
Following a series of meetings with lawmakers on Monday, President-elect Barack Obama has seemingly bolstered even further his chance of passing a mas...
UPDATE: Several sources have chimed in to say that DeLauro is not likely to get the nod for Labor Secretary. No explanations were offered, but the sou...
Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.
Obama's economic advisory team looks more like a semester's worth of guest speakers for an MBA class than a team that can truly help him. Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to them.
Many McCain apologists have suggested that the meltdown in the stock market over the last month doomed his campaign. That assessment seems far too friendly.