What if I told you that a prominent global political figure in recent months has proposed: abrogating key features of his government's contracts with energy companies; unilaterally renegotiating his country's international economic treaties; dramatically raising marginal tax rates on the "rich" to levels not seen in his country in three decades (which would make them among the highest in the world); and changing his country's social insurance system into explicit welfare by severing the link between taxes and benefits?...
GOP presidential candidate John McCain, fundraising in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the nation's technology capitals, acknowledged Monday that he isn't a "tech freak" or entirely comfortable with the Internet, BlackBerrys or e-mail...
“We don’t look to arsonists to help put out fires but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they played a major role in creating...
House prices are tumbling in the U.S., the job market is faltering, gasoline is about $4 a gallon and financial markets are struggling through their worst shock in decades...
Don't ever go on CNBC to debate Bob Compton, one of America's most energetic prophets of doom, without careful preparation and a willingness to be rude...
On July 28, 2008, the White House estimated that the budget deficit for the current fiscal year, FY 2007-08 (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008), will amount to $389 billion, and that the deficit for FY 2008-09 will be a record $490 billion...
