Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.

At a time that the U.S. economy is struggling to pick up steam, Americans are struggling just to keep up. Over the last three months of last year,...

The latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well c...

We are moving closer to the jobs market as it will inform perceptions of the economy in the primaries and eventual general election cycle 2012. Monthly jobs numbers are now economically and politically influential. And they don't look good.