If the late Nobel laureate Milton Friedman could speak out from the great beyond, he might scold the government of Hong Kong for going in the wrong direction by adding to its share pile of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...

Former Federal Reserve Board governor Edward Gramlich himself noted the grim irony of his last months: He couldn't have picked a timelier moment than June to publish his book "Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust..."

The Economic Freedom Network, a global association of research and educational institutes, has just issued its annual report, which rates only one former communist country among the world's top nations with policies that support economic freedom...

The iPod will be six years old next month...