One effect of President Obama’s $500,000 salary cap on the executives of bailed out firms (if it has any effect at all; Gary Becker thinks it won’t) could be an exodus of human capital from the top echelons of the finance industry...

The debate over the stimulus during the past few months focused on two big issues: (1) the composition of the stimulus, the shares for tax cuts and spending and (2) the size of the stimulus, $700 billion, $800 billion, $900 billion, or more...

Did you know . . .? Although a number of economic indicators fell, GDP increased in 2008...

It’s go day for the Screen Actors Guild...