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Byline: Akane Otani After rattling markets last month by hinting the Fed might roll back stimulus earlier than expected, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke quieted anxieties, saying the US economy [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Attention Washington: The US economy, the top concern of voters, is barely moving. That's the message that was sent, in essence, by disappointingly sluggish job-market numbers for [...]

Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock The White House and congressional leaders are looking to a new round of talks on Sunday to signal whether a grand bargain on raising the debt [...]

Byline: Daniel B. Wood Despite his troubles - including a $26.4 billion deficit still only half-plugged - Gov. Jerry Brown (D) of California has gotten mostly good marks from polls [...]

Byline: David R. Francis Why is it that economists don't understand - at a deep and scientific level - how the economy works? Two centuries after Adam Smith's 'Wealth of [...]

Byline: Nathan Fisk To defeat totalitarian dictators, the greatest generation rationed goods, tended victory gardens, paid higher taxes, bought war bonds, and sent 16 million young men and women to [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull The Fed is on the case. That's the message Ben Bernanke is trying to send regarding the Federal Reserve's ability to craft a successful 'exit strategy' from [...]

Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer Most presidents want to forget about the campaign promises that donâot exactly work out. And they certainly donâot make them a central feature of the [...]

Byline: Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz Two camps have fought the political and philosophical battle for influence over the economy in the United States for the past 100 years. They […]

Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer State budgets are sliding deeper into the red than many governors and legislators expected only a few months ago. As a result, states including Washington […]

Byline: Steven Hill With the nationaos unemployment rate at 10 percent, the highest in a generation, President Obama could learn a thing or two about job creation by heading to […]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Out of sheer gratitude for helping rescue an economy on the abyss, Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will likely be confirmed by the US Senate [...]

Byline: William E. Halal and Elias G. Carayannis Washington -- While leaders are searching for complex solutions to the economic crisis, well-established trends in ordinary business collaboration could convert this [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer With his young administration about to enter a crucial few weeks, President Obama at a March 24 press conference vigorously defended his approach to fixing [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer The Federal Reserve's unexpected move this week to pump as much as $1 trillion of new money into the economy is being hailed by some [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer With his first proposed budget, President Obama is attempting to address some of the most difficult public-policy problems facing the United States. He promised change, [...]

Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor One goal of the $800-plus billion economic stimulus package is to give Americans a lift, a sense that Uncle Sam [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board To jolt the economy and end a recession born out of too much homeowner debt, Congress and the US Treasury this week plan to take [...]

Byline: John Hughes Provo, Utah -- During the presidential election campaign, one of Barack Obama's interrogators asked him how, with his lack of international expertise, he could handle foreign problems [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Even as he tries to boost the economy, it's not too early for Barack Obama to prevent another credit bubble during the coming recovery. His [...]

Byline: Dan Murphy Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Think 2008 was rough? Most indications are that 2009 will be even rougher for the global economy. For the first time [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer Yes, a new US stimulus package will be very expensive. Yes, the federal budget is already burdened with record debt. But only Washington has the [...]

Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer Stunned at the prospect of a $1.2 trillion deficit this fiscal year, lawmakers in Congress are taking a harder look at how big a [...]

Byline: Thomas Watterson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor It may be hard to believe, but the stock market has actually staged a decent recovery from its low of just [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan is expected to reach historic proportions, but what the world could really use right now [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor A trillion dollars here and there, and soon the US government's financial rescue programs start adding up to big money. […]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Federal Reserve may cut its short-term interest rate below 1 percent Tuesday, stepping up a battle against recession that [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Momentum is building for the next bailout - not one targeted at big corporations but at the lowly borrower at [...]

Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- In announcing the biggest public works spending in 50 years, President-elect Obama takes a page from the [...]

Byline: Peter Navarro Irvine, Calif. -- President-elect Barack Obama has promised to jolt the American economy out of its depressionary spiral with the mother of all fiscal stimuli. While Mr. [...]

Byline: Raymond P.H. Fishe Richmond, VA. -- The U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve may need more than $700 billion to shore up bank balance sheets and restart the economy. So [...]

Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- Lloyd Blankfein, chairman of Goldman Sachs, made $73.7 million last year. James 'Jamie' Dimon, chairman of J.P. [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board For Congress, spending billions to buy up Wall Street's dodgy mortgages may be the easy part. The next act requires lawmakers to respond to public [...]

Americans can be good at collective sacrifice. During World War II, they were encouraged to buy war bonds and lived with rationed gas, coal, and foods. During the 1970s oil [...]

Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- Members of Congress are used to working in an institution that gets no respect, but a recent [...]

As they started their election face-off last week, John McCain and Barack Obama were reminded why the economy is the hot topic. On Friday alone, oil prices jumped 8 percent [...]

Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- Spurred by the mortgage crisis and stress in US financial markets, Congress is ramping up to have [...]