When the momentous campaign debate over lipstick on pigs and BlackBerrys finally subsides, Americans might appreciate a conversation on issues that actually affect the money in their pockets.
Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain hinted at what serious…

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona responded to Monday’s financial crisis on Wall Street by telling an audience in Jacksonville, Fla., that the “The fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”

Naturally this…

Over the next 65 days, Americans will be presented with two very different visions of the role of government, one anchored in the verities of the past, the other urging something that hasn’t been tried for a while.

The first will be…

In 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…

Amid the hoopla of the presidential campaign last week, as candidates were delivering their hopeful economic messages, a dull missive from the government’s bean counters landed with a thud:
The White House Budget Office said it expects next year’s federal deficit to…

Hill and Barry to appear together again next week, the NY Daily News reports.

Katie Couric plays funny, via Poynter’s Romenesko.

DNC calls for investigation over McCain and public financing, from Huffington Post. (My advice: Get over it and talk about issues.…

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama’s comments April 6 about the feelings of Americans in small towns that have lost jobs to other parts of the world was still top of mind today as Obama and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive…