Reagan

In just a few weeks, your opportunity to take advantage of the most recent variation on the homebuyer's credit will expire. By most accounts, this version of the credit, which cost taxpayers a whopping $1 billion per month, was a bust, doing little to actually spur the housing market. While a...

Financial crises are very lucrative for the Republican party. One way to judge that is to measure the success of lobbyist Richard Hohlt, who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates since pushing through savings & loan deregulation, which led to the last great banking...

This past week, the United States Justice Department released four memos showing that its lawyers approved of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques. President Obama hailed the move, stating that America needs to move beyond "a dark and painful chapter" in its...

It's an inconvenient truth, to borrow a quote from Al Gore, but it's one that investors should heed, if they seek a U.S. economy capable of sustainable GDP growth and an investment stance that's correct for the age, the new era. The truth: laissez-faire capitalism -- like orthodox communism -- has...