Nebraska's CB plans are innovative and could be a model for other states to follow as they try and bring their budgets and pensions under control. Yet there are other, more transparent and taxpayer-friendly ways Nebraska could construct the pension system.

Americans are failing to save for retirement, investing their money foolishly, and choosing health insurance plans that poorly meet their needs. Why do so many of us make bad choices on such important issues? Recent scientific research shows that people are susceptible to cognitive biases. Because we are human, we...

President Obama is blaming insurers for rising insurance prices and increases in the number of uninsured Americans rather than acknowledging the role his health plan has played, but it will be much harder for him to dodge the rising tide of Americans lacking any health insurance.

Americans' reluctance to pay for the popular space program could doom it.

The political theater in Copenhagen shows that we need realistic answers that do not require economic suicide to address the challenge of rising global temperatures.

The NCEP recommendation for a new emissions-trading program aptly balances the need for environmental policy action with a mechanism for prudent economic risk management.

The Committee hopes that the SEC will follow up the new proxy proposal and the promise of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) with other advances in the use of electronic communications.

The taxpayers, through the generosity of Congress, have offered Fannie and Freddie a great deal: heads you win; tails we lose.