In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

Presidential candidatesshould use their time in the spotlight to begin sounding the drumbeat for improving our schools.

The fiscal stimulus was both so expensive and so badly flawed that it was rendered ineffective; a recent paper that vindicates the plan fails to measure the number of people who found work and the effectiveness with which the Obama stimulus created jobs.

Barack Obama's proposed economic stimulus is more than twice as large as the biggest previous fiscal boost.

Last week's announcement by four major oil companies that they are setting up a billion dollar joint venture to create a rapid-response system to contain deep offshore oil spills shows that private firms can act faster in a crisis than government regulators.

The stimulus plan is bad news.

President Obama acts like he runs the US economy. However, his plans for economic recovery have hurt more than they have helped.

Recent economic research suggests that a dollar of government spending raises GDP by $1 but that a dollar of tax cuts raises GDP by $3.