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According to a Pew Research Center poll, 40% of Americans believe that the expiration of tax cuts for the wealthy would hurt the economy, while only 26% think it would help.

Senate Republicans will likely block President Barack Obama's plan to effectively increase taxes for the wealthiest U.S. citizens by allowing a tax cut enacted by George W. Bush's administration to expire at year end.

Despite -- or probably partly because of -- a considerable public outcry, Tony Blair's memoir is doing brisk business on both sides of the Atlantic. Will George W. Bush find similar success with his book later this fall?

Recognizing that voters are worried about the economy, President Obama is offering an olive branch to his critics with a $50 billion infrastructure plan and a deal to make the R&D tax credit permanent. Conservatives say it's too little too late, but the game is far from over for the Democrats.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Monday (last updated 7:56 a.m. ET): Greenspan: Recovery 'On Pause': Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said over the weekend that the U.S. economy is taking a breather of sorts. "We're in a pause in a...

Since George W. Bush gutted regulations on the for-profit education industry, it has reaped huge profit growth, while appalling percentages of its students drop out with no degrees and big debts. Reregulation could lead those profits to plummet.

Here's an early peak at the books everyone will be talking about in the autumn. There are works by George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Maria Bartiromo, among many others, in what promises to be a busy publishing season.

Not all the people who donate to presidential campaigns are good. This fact comes to mind as we find out more about one of George W. Bush's big campaign donors -- a pleasant fellow named Scott Rothstein. Of course, he had plenty of company in goosing Bush's campaign coffers -- recall subprime...

Of all the effects of 2008's economic meltdown, the most significant might be the growing belief that the country is now on the road to socialism. Within days of the government's 2008 bailout of Sallie Mae (SLM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), the media began to resound with complaints about the country's...

As the CARS program -- aka "cash for clunkers" finishes up today, it marks the end of a very short, yet exceedingly contentious government stimulus program. As the most visible of the government's economic growth moves, it has spent roughly $3 billion, inspired the purchase of hundreds of thousands...