According to a new CBO report, the federal debt is nearing its historic high. The debt is now 99% of GDP, and is projected to climb even higher in the next three decades. The last time the debt was ...

Many Americans are convinced the economy is ailing and that life is financially tougher today than a decade—or a generation—ago. Social media posts wax nostalgic for a long-lost era when all single ...

The United States no longer ranks among the world's free economies. For the first time in its 16-year history, the "Index of Economic Freedom" (published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street ...

December is usually a time for looking back on the past year and forward to the year ahead. In 2019, we have witnessed rising political extremism (on both the left and right) and polarization, ...

PROVIDENCE -- After years of feeling blue about its economy, Rhode Island can bounce back in part by bolstering its “blue economy.” That’s one of the main conclusions in the state’s new long-term ...

Goran Roos is a member of the Economic Development Board of South Australia, a member of the Council for Flinders University and also a Stretton Fellow appointed by the City of Playford at University ...

Our elected officials and appointed economic officials still do not get it Real dollars are what drives our economy. There are only two forms of our economy that generate real dollars. They are: ...

On April 30, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship, held a hearing to examine the question: "Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009: Can ...

When we recently wrote about the need to refine capitalism, we got plenty of feedback. The conversation around capitalism has rightly grown to a roar. As we noted in the article, much of what’s said ...

I’ve been following a thread today about how the Democratic Party can get their mojo back, in which everybody agrees that the key is to do more to actually help working class (but actually working) ...

Verizon and T-Mobile USA's CEOs say that wireless is a growth engine for the economy and could help pull the nation out of crisis. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...