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PAUL RYAN, free market extremist: With an economics degree in his pocket and small-government conservatism in his blood--Calvin Coolidge appointed his grandfather as a U.S. attorney--Wisconsin's Paul Ryan rose quickly [...]

When it gets dark, Exarchia Square in Athens comes alive with the murmur of drug dealers. Students wander past them, deep in political argument. Posters denounce capitalism; graffiti denounces the [...]

OIL-PRODUCING countries face special challenges in managing their economies, not just because oil prices and revenues are highly volatile and hard to predict but also because they must plan for [...]

Byline: Chris Frates So much for the August recess. Congress may be getting one, but not the folks paid to influence the institution. After months spent watching the debt-limit debate [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard In 2008, Americans elected a president who pitched himself as a bridge-builder able to transcend Washington's partisan politics. Barack Obama didn't transcend partisan politics, but he did [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh Don't worry, Washington. Gridlock your way into oblivion, Congress. Fight on, tea partiers. Unless a rival market for sovereign debt opens up on Mars, the United States [...]

Byline: Ronald Brownstein Already, the smart money in Washington is betting that the congressional super committee created by this week's debt-ceiling deal to develop a plan for taming the long-term [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh Imagine you're at home or at work, going about your normal business, when you learn that a small band of zealots has taken over the town hall. [...]

Byline: Clive Crook The global beating shares just took had many causes, no doubt. Still disgusted by the US debt-ceiling fiasco, I am apt to give that masterclass in malice [...]

Byline: Edmund L. Andrews As Congress and the White House lurched closer this week to a debt-ceiling Armageddon, the choice between competing budget plans looked simple. Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]

Byline: George E. Condon Jr. President Obama broke into a big smile when Jim Vance, Channel 4's veteran Washington news anchor, asked him last week, 'Are you in a groove?Ç¥ [...]

Byline: Major Garrett 'Boom.Ç¥ That was the single word in the subject line of an e-mail last Saturday night from House Speaker John Boehner's deputy chief of staff, Mike Sommers, [...]

Byline: Major Garrett On the eve of a potential government shutdown in April, a deal was finally on the table to avert the crisis. House Speaker John Boehner stared at [...]

Byline: Susan Davis In two weeks, House Republicans plan to move ahead on a funding bill that will seek to cut about $60 billion in discretionary spending from the federal [...]

'Left to its own devices, Congress will balance the budget on the backs of taxpayers while creating more and more entitlements and regulations.' THE NATIONAL DEBT reached three trillion dollars [...]

Byline: Reid Wilson SAN DIEGOâThe Republican governors elected in the class of 2010 are supposed to be white knights, riding in to save states slammed by serious budget deficits and [...]

Byline: Brian Friel After President Obama on February 12 enacted a new 'pay-as-you-go' law to curb the federal budget deficit, he signed another nine laws through the end of March [...]

Rod woke up with a fiscal hangover Who would want to be a governor nowadays? LISTENING to the new governor of Illinois make his inaugural speech on January 13th, it [...]

Some nasty numbers on the west coast ALMOST every state in America is in a budget bind. Most are required, by their own constitutions, to balance their budgets. But with [...]

2002 AUG 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The nation's governors opened their summer meeting July 13, 2002, with an eye toward shoring up faltering state economies by taking aim [...]

Valentine's Day opened the federal budget season with President Obama releasing his 2,402 page, 8-pound, $3.7 trillion FY 2012 budget book. Reaction has varied based on political perspective, and it's [...]