2011 was a great year for corn farmers. Record-high prices. A record-high volume of 14 billion bushels produced. It was such a remarkable year that farmers are expected ...
The Obama-Romney rumble will last roughly as long as the baseball season, and, just as in baseball, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard. So let’s score the op...
WASHINGTON — Warren Buffett has become a political prop — and, perhaps, an object lesson in how business leaders, when they enter the political arena, are easily manipul...
Oh Lord, it’s that time of year. You stare at the words on the form. “Short-term gain from Form 6252 and short-term gain or (loss) from Forms 4684, 6781, and 8824. . . ....
On April 15, everyone’s in favor of tax reform.
Nobody can survive the ordeal of preparing a federal income tax return without concluding that there must be a simpler, f...
DALLAS — From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Wo...
When the United States was in recession three decades ago, middle-age industrial workers were the biggest losers.
The most recent recession and hesitant recovery, though...
On Monday the U.S. Senate will take up S. 2230, “The Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012,” which would enact the so-called “Buffett Rule.”
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, ...
NEW YORK — The Obama administration’s Iran strategy has worked so far. Unprecedented pressure has forced Tehran to the negotiating table. It will take extraordinary dipl...
As Americans scramble to file their tax returns before Tuesday’s deadline, President Barack Obama and his allies are pressing a multilevel campaign to bolster what seems...
