Ron Paul

This week, Rick Santorum grabbed headlines when he offered campaign donors the sweater vest off his back. But the former senator faces a tough fight in the campaign merchandise contest. As GOP primary season heats up, here's our rundown of the winners and losers in the battle of the campaign swag.

From Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan to Ron Paul's proposal to nix the income tax, the GOP presidential candidates have floated a range of ideas for jump-starting the U.S. economy. But will any of them jump-start your home's economics?

Now that Hurricane Irene has passed, it's time to get back to discussing the country's biggest unnatural disaster: the economy. But here, too, Irene is making her impact felt, as economists and pundits across the country debate whether the hurricane will help or hurt America's bottom line.

In business jargon, it seems like round has come back around. We're hearing a resurgence of the defense-minded phrase "circling the wagons," as well as the extremely slippery phrase "circle back," which changes its meaning completely depending on who's saying it.

For the past two years, the relationship between the dollar, stocks and gold was strong. When the dollar dropped, stocks and gold rose, and vice versa, nearly all the time. But since New Year's Day, that link has completely vanished, which is terrible news for the gold bugs.

According to two Paul supporters, the Texas Republican isn't ready to go directly back to the gold standard. Instead, he wants to keep the dollar and add three more currencies. Those would be based on gold, silver and copper.

Republican Ron Paul is going to have a great time making the Federal Reserve miserable once he takes over as chair of the House subcommittee that overseas it. But he's off-target in at least seven points of criticism he levels at Bernanke & Co.

House Committee appointments this week of Ron Paul, Harold "Hal" Rogers and Fred Upton appear to be splitting Republican opinion, as many conservatives are lauding the 112th Congress's selection of Paul while bashing those of Rogers and Upton.

Rep. Ron Paul, author of the best-selling book End the Fed, will head the House subcommittee overseeing the Federal Reserve. Spencer Bachus, House Financial Services chairman-elect, selected Paul, 75, to lead the domestic monetary policy subcommittee in the next session of Congress, Bloomberg...

There are people around the world rubbing their hands with glee at America's supposed collapse, pundits who say this nation is so bankrupt that it has become irrelevant. But author, venture capitalist and DailyFinance columnist Peter Cohan says don't write America's obituary just yet.