President Barack Obama has been on a tour of college campuses touting proposals to lower student loan repayments for college graduates. He hopes to rekindle the enthusiasm of young voters, who in 2008 favored him over Sen. John McCain by more than two-to-one.

Ironically, these same young Americans...

The front-runner to replace the disgraced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF chief will inherit Europe on the brink of disaster.

Looking past the turbulent 1970s and early 1980s, much of the moderation in the economy reflects a decline in high frequency (short-term) fluctuations.

If International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn's proposal to increase the IMF's war chest by $250 billion is passed, it will likely prolong the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.

Shareholders are rightly fearful that any sovereign debt rescheduling in the periphery right now will trigger contagion and a full blown banking crisis in Europe's core countries.

This book provides a valuable and accessible guide to unraveling the complex world of network deregulation.

The FCC's 3-2 decision of February 20th is ambivalent: on the one hand, its exemption from regulation and the obligation to share with competitors their costly and risky investments makes excellent sense, but on the other, it is purely political in the worst sense and grounded in neither good economics nor honorable regulatory practice.

Congress has introduced several bills on net neutrality, but mostof themare likely to do more harm than good.