As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, chief executives' pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analysis shows. ...more

June 17, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) -- As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analysis shows. ...more

June 16, 2008

It's the economy, stupid," James Carville famously said during the 1992 campaign, when a young Bill Clinton was running against the other President Bush. ...more

June 1, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public's pain from a troubled economy. ...more

April 16, 2008

The world's top economies on Saturday promised coordinated action to restore confidence in global markets as financial turmoil slows U.S. growth, but with each country having different priorities, they didn't offer a specific remedy. ...more

February 10, 2008

The best bang for the buck is to "stop the bleeding, stop the war." Bring the troops home from all nations. We can no longer be the world's policeman. We have bases all over the world that we can no longer support, short of borrowing millions of dollars a day, which is destroying us financially. The best that America can do for the entire world is to stabilize our financial institutions. The entire world's economy is tied to the American economy. America must re-build its own industries and its infrastructure, not of other nations with the American tax dollar, as well as borrowing money from other nations at huge interest. We must also work toward energy independence, which is the biggest cause of a failed economy. The many regulations that were put in place to regulate financial institutions for the last two decades have been ignored and have created criminal lending practices. These have happened under the watch of both political parties. This illegal lending will create a huge tax bill for all Americans. ...more

February 1, 2008

Ernest Lane of Trinity says Charley Reese overstates extent of nation's economic problems. ...more

January 29, 2008

President Bush and Saudi leaders tangled Tuesday over the price of oil, with the president reminding this wealthy desert kingdom that U.S. purchases could fall if the American economy slipped because Saudis refused to commit his country to greater production to lower costs at the pump. ...more

January 16, 2008

Ernest Lane of Trinity says Charley Reese exaggerating problems of the nation's economy. ...more

January 8, 2008

The Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar on Thursday for the first time since November 1976. ...more

September 21, 2007