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Following the money in the Iran crisis.

Economists and wonks respond to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”

"Brave" politicians in both parties want to cut healthcare and Social Security to save the country from wrathful judgment by Standard & Poor’s. What a hoot.

Domestic and global trends suggest that in 2025, just 15 years from now, the American century could all be over except for the shouting.

Devastation wrought by the BP spill is in headlines daily. But decades of oil drilling in Louisiana have done far more indelible damage.

The Obama administration's jobs proposals are on the right track, but the scope is nowhere near large enough for the crisis we face today.

The Marxists bankers of Beijing are worried about their assets invested in our banana republic.

If it really is time for accountability, we should start by holding banks and financial institutions responsible for their actions and not allow them to rob us again with TARP II.

Every sweetheart deal the Bush administration makes threatens to hobble Obama's ability to deliver on his promise of change.

The emerging compromise on the bailout is better than Paulson's original proposal, but falls far short of what needs to be done. Congress and the next president will have a lot more work to do.