Despite the recession and the massive taxpayer funded TARP bailout, bank executives are still getting record compensations. The popular discontent with Wall Street during the financial crisis over how much money bankers were paying themselves has somehow faded, as if, once again general apathy replaced public rage. Wall Street’s culture of greed...
Debt Commission co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, left, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson
WASHINGTON – The health care cuts proposed by leaders of President Barack Obama's deficit commission would reach virtually every corner of society, making cost curbs in the new overhaul law look tame by comparison.
The plan tackles the unfinished business of...
The Chrome Web Store, Google's mechanism to bring online services and features to users of its browser products, appears likely to launch shortly.
The online service is designed to let Chrome and Chrome OS users find, install, and potentially buy Web applications, similar in concept to what Google has done with its Android Market and to what...
A Texas jury effectively answered that question in the affirmative last week, when it convicted former majority whip Tom DeLay for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay's defense, aside from his personal attacks against the Democratic-leaning prosecutor who brought charges against him, has always been: What's the big...
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly states that tax cuts “on the so-called rich” increase federal revenues. Tax experts and economists disagree, noting that tax rates are not high enough for a tax cut to increase revenues.
President Bush’s own economic advisers have said the Bush tax cuts did not raise revenue.
