John Spratt: “it means it is to remove, in the case of agriculture, a reduction of $18 billion.”

Over the last year and a half some truly extraordinary steps have been taken, including the so-called TARP program, the Recovery Act program, and the Fed's own actions to make an extraordinary amount of collateralized loans to its member…

The moral of the story is, if the leaders of both parties don't want a commission to succeed, if the leaders of both parties aren't willing to put both parts of the budget, taxes and spending, on the table, the chances that it is going to…

Nobody should be financially destroyed due to a catastrophic illness.

This year, Congress has passed and the President has signed into law a $787 billion recovery package to spur demand and create 3 million new jobs.