This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

As Congress contemplates major revisions to America's health care system, two leading health economists warn that significant differences among state Medicaid programs will hinder national health care reform.

Most of the appropriated spending included in the stimulus package moving through Congress will occur too slowly to provide an effective stimulus to aggregate demand.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face two significant challenges when he becomes managing director of the IMF in October.

The United States is presently running its largest-ever external current-account deficit. In the absence of appropriate corrective policy measures by the major industrialized countries, this deficit has the potential for hampering the global economic recovery.

This seminar will examine the underlying causes of the large U.S. external payments imbalance. It...

Global payment imbalances between the United States and the Asian economies are now at their widest level in the past sixty years.

Panelists discuss Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly's newly released book, Reform Medicaid First: Laying the Foundation for National Health Care Reform.

At the start of the year, Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve Board Chairman who is not known for being an alarmist, issued an ominous warning.