Bush appealed to Paulson's patriotism and convinced him that his country needs him.

Henry Paulson has been granted broad authority to purchase troubled assets. Now it is time for him to buy, buy, buy.

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that our leaders, in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, responded to crises and challenges all too often with measures that attempted to revive the old pre-financial crisis economy rather than with policies that would allow a new economy to grow.

Henry Paulsonnow has the unenviable task of picking up the pieces from the bursting of the largest housing and credit market bubbles in memory.

Long after Henry Paulson is gone from the Treasury, Washington will be wrestling with the problem of what to do about Fannie and Freddie.

How to deal with China’s ever-growing trade surplus has become one of the key economic policy challenges confronting the United States. The importance of this issue was highlighted by the recent high-level visit to Beijing of U.S. Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan alleviates concerns about the potential failure of Fannie and Freddie but does not address the underlying problem with the GSEs.

We in the punditocracy have been attributing Cain's lead to many conservatives' resistance to frequent front-runner Mitt Romney. But I think Cain's current lead is evidence of a larger and longer-range trend that is both heartening and disturbing. I call it the revolt against the experts.