In 2006 Congress was debating whether to authorize increasing the size of the national debt. A freshman senator addressed his colleagues: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt is a sign of leadership failure." ...more

November 2, 2009

This shouldn't surprise many Floridians, but the Sunshine State ranked 48th in the country in economic growth in 2008, according to new federal data. ...more

June 3, 2009

The economy shrank at a 6.3 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and probably isn't doing much better now. ...more

March 26, 2009

President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. ...more

March 20, 2009

Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. ...more

March 8, 2009

How big should government be? The answer is: As big as it has to be - and for small-government types, no bigger than it has to be. ...more

February 27, 2009

One evening in the 1930s, 13-year-old William Troeller hanged himself from the transom of his bedroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ...more

February 15, 2009

Jim Lee of Tarpon Springs says the government cannot create jobs. This makes the government bailouts "boondoggles." ...more

February 7, 2009

Signs grew that the economy could turn even weaker in 2009, as an index of December manufacturing activity sank to its lowest point in 28 years. Every corner of the sector was down, from bakeries to cigarette-makers to aluminum smelters. ...more

January 3, 2009

Surprise, surprise people. The usual suspects are at it again in the free-wheeling, high-spending free-for-all that is Major League Baseball's offseason. ...more

December 28, 2008