This conference explored how technology and innovation have transformed the way consumers pay for purchases. It also looked at which reforms to current legislative and regulatory structures may be necessary to support continued payment innovation.

The best long-term solution for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is privatization: as private entities they will not create future losses for taxpayers, and a private system will encourage more innovation, efficiency, and competition, which should lead to lower mortgage rates.

It has become glaringly obvious that the U.S. economy will be the big presidential election issue of the year 2000.

The steady decline of the U.S. dollar to record lows on almost a daily basis should be sounding alarm bells in Washington.

Few issues have been closer to the center of the maelstrom than budget-related ones. Yet from its inception to today, CBO has maintained a reputation for fairness, incisiveness, depth, and quality.

Will a single currency in Asia produce the same results as it did in Europe?

As the euro rides high, an unhealthy sense of complacency pervades European capitals about the currency's long-run viability.