President Barack Obama has this week focused attention on the burden of student loans. He is proposing changes to an existing program to help ease the burden on graduate...
Three major Republican presidential candidates want to replace all or part of the byzantine federal tax code with a “flat tax” that collects a fixed percentage of one’s ...
The six-year transportation construction plan being pushed by House Republicans in Congress makes sense from two perspectives.
First, the plan would create jobs; second,...
In a perfect world, the U.S., China and other leading energy consumers would move with great determination toward cleaner, renewable sources and away from oil and coal.
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A week ago Saturday, someone using the screen name “ArrestAllCEOs” posted the following message on the OccupyWallStreet.org forum:
“I took a break from the struggle here...
A dollar bill, as we all know, is a fleeting thing. Not just because it leaves our hands so much more easily than it returns, but because, as it changes hands, it wears ...
Leaders of a city in financial trouble should be discussing the problem openly at every one of their meetings and regularly updating residents on what remedial measures ...
Memo to Republicans: If you don’t nominate Mitt Romney, you’re nuts.
I’m serious here. You should quit your futile quest for the elusively perfect candidate and focus on...
WASHINGTON — Here’s a fantasy of mine that might help solve the long-term budget problem. Retired presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush would tour the country toget...
The congressional “supercommittee” faces a late-November deadline to trim $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit. And there are no encouraging reports of progress — Demo...
