Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline—to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon—we would have had a national debate...
During his confirmation hearing before the United States Senate toward the end of January, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner accused China of "manipulating" its currency...
The G7 finance ministers and central bankers—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—held their annual meeting in Rome on February 14-15, 2009...
Before deciding what to do about the worst economic crisis in more than three decades, policymakers ought to have answered one question: What caused it?...
Underscoring the extreme folly of ensnaring generations of future Americans in ever more crushing taxation and debt to pay for the so-called "stimulus" bill, Citizens for Common Sense and Accountability titled its opposition to the plan "Stop the Stimulus Madness!"...
The Working Group on Economic Policy brings together experts on economic and financial policy to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.