Bill Neugent, an engineer in McLean, Va., is doing his bit to ease the looming generational financial squeeze as the nation’s 75 million baby boomers begin to retire...
Increases in energy prices sharply accelerated during the past year, as the price of oil more than doubled, and gasoline prices in United States rose by 25 percent...
Washington Post staff writers Alec Klein and Zach Goldfarb were online Monday, June 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET with guest John Taylor, Stanford economics professor, to discuss their three-part narrative series about the U.S. housing bust...
The black-tie party at Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel seemed a fitting celebration of the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s: filet mignon and lobster, a champagne room and hundreds of mortgage brokers, real estate agents and their customers gyrating to a Latin band...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is never likely to be president because of the U.S. Constitution, but Thursday he played the role of chief executive with enthusiasm and energy, while he hosted a meeting with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet...
Today, I would like to discuss three long-term realities implied by current U.S. budget trends and then examine the policy choices facing Congress and the president in 2009 and 2010...
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