Just when the mainstream media thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead in the polls, with positive job ratings, and just after the media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama's numbers seem to be tanking.

This paper measures the incidence of a carbon tax on gasoline using current income and two measures oflifetime income to rank households.

Advocates for revaluation of China's exchange rate have argued that an appreciation would boost demand for U.S. goods and shrink the U.S. trade deficit, but Chinese currency revaluation cannot provide a quick fix to the U.S. economic predicament.

Large deficits faced by the PBGC are a political challenge that Washington will be forced to fix.

High gas prices are inducing consumers to tighten their belts and politicians to call for taxes on oil companies. This Outlook explores the true causes of oil price fluctuation and explains how policymakers can help lower gasoline prices.

Based on our reading of the evidence, the Supplemental Security Income-disabled children program has increasingly become a more general welfare program that in large part targets a population of able-bodied single mothers that overlaps with the TANF population.

Latin American and Caribbean economies, usually susceptible to international financial turmoil, are especially vulnerable to even minor tremors in U.S. markets.

The U.S. economy is in a very strange place. A wild ride may be in store.