Health insurance exchanges and computerized records will increase competition in health care and lower costs. That is what happened in other American industries when competition increased, and it will happen in health care.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
It's abundantly clear that President Obama's stewardship of the economy has resulted in tremendous improvement from the near-abyss the nation fell into last Fall at the end of Bush's presidency.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 08.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Timothy Geithner, architect of bank, auto and economic rescue plans, has another high-stakes job these days: traveling bond salesma...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
My grandma said that if I read something that doesn't seem to make sense, I should think twice about it. With that thought in mind, I decided to rattle off a slew of economic absurdities coming from Wall Street, the media and Washington.
Ben Carmichael | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Palin's argument is so dependent on established Republican strategy that is reads like a grab bag of worn-out phrases.
Wall Street Journal | JENNIFER LEVITZ | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
Rhonda Brewster and her husband have decided they don't want to be married to each other anymore. But while they're ready to move on, they still can't...
Washington Post | Katty Kay and Claire Shipman | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is wi...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the Financial Times sat down with Larry Summers, director of Obama's National Economi...
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
When times are tough, one thing that tends to raise the spirits is knowing that somebody else has it worse. And as wretched as the U.S. economy seems,...
Walden Bello | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Government must step in to remedy the failure of the market. This is, of course, the great lesson that Keynes imparted.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.
Simon Sinek | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Offering CEOs big money to come and run companies does not guarantee great leadership. In fact, the practice may attract the wrong leaders altogether.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Avoiding financial calamity is a good thing and it does appear that the global economy is past the worst point in the cycle, but a self-sustained recovery is not necessarily in the bag.
ABC News | Jennifer Parker | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
obel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said the nation is on course for a "prolonged jobless" economic recovery unless the Obama administration ste...
ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
One of President Barack Obama's most prominent Wall Street backers gives him high marks on just about everything except his approach to Wall Street. ...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California faces a $24 billion budget shortfall, an eye-popping amount that dwarfs many states' entire annual spending plan...
Ben Hecht | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
A philanthropic collaboration of 21 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions, Living Cities applauds the focused, inter-agency approach you are taking to revitalize industrial cities.
Larry Gellman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
It seems pretty clear that Obama is actually insisting that we change the approach that led the economy off a cliff. I just don't get it.
Huffingtion Post/AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Billionaire Warren Buffett says the economy has not yet had any bounce and will take some time to recover. Berkshire Hathaway's ch...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods from computers to aircraft surged in May for a second straight month. And a gauge o...
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
There has been a lot of sexy talk about cutting poverty in half over the next 10 years. How is that going to happen if we don't have an accurate measure of how many poor people there are living in the US.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
Will we step boldly into the new economic reality with a plan for creating jobs? Or will we look to unsustainable government protections that will force the US to take a backseat in the new era?
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
American consumers have fallen victim to one financial scandal after another in the past decade, from accounting fraud at Enron to illegal late tradin...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...
Paul A. London | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics