How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all.In fact Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But it's become glaringly...

Many in the mainstream media have been cheerleading for Barack Obama. They and he both naturally hope for a strong economic recovery. After all, Obama can't keep blaming the economic doldrums on George W. Bush forever.

The collapse of the market for subprime mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other complex derivative securities created a panic among the global investors and short-term lenders who finance such assets, resulting in large losses for investment funds and banks around the world. Critics claim that the major rating agencies failed to...

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It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

The people running America's colleges and universities have long thought they were exempt from the laws of supply and demand, but it has become increasingly clear that the higher education market is a bubble.

Leading experts on physician markets and health insurance consider what constitutes fair compensation to physicians under Medicare.