Government spending

Planned layoffs are up in 2011 over the previous year -- and there's still a month to go.

This final note today, toward a more consumer friendly Internal Revenue Service, perhaps The left-leaning think tank Third Way has a new policy...

Critics say the rules to receive compensation through the $20 billion BP oil spill fund are unfair....

Who's handling the economic crisis better -- the US or Europe? Today, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman points out the stark differences in...

Other countries and more Americans are starting to question whether Team Obama is on the right path. European countries are sick of all the US...

I read a story that says small cities in California are selling their federal stimulus funds to other cities in exchange for cash. The sellers are...

I just read a very compelling interview with respected Harvard historian Niall Ferguson. Here's the interview by the Toronto Globe and Mail, and...

The House started debate this morning on a $410 billion spending bill. A vote could come later today. Yes, this is $410 billion on top of the ...

Wall Street sure doesn't think much of President Obama's speech last night. Not that I want to care what Wall Street thinks, but let's face it,...

Let's have it out on the President's budget plan. He wants to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term. Some of it is a deficit he...