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I get a dizzying sense of déjà vu whenever I hear what's left of President Barack Obama's supporters blame the current state of the economy on former President George W. Bush. As the U.S. economy fell into recession early in Bush's presidency, many Republicans put the blame on former President Bill...

All of the significant stock market indexes in the Asia/Pacific region ended Monday trading higher after news broke that President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders had reached a deal to raise the United States debt ceiling in order to prevent the country from defaulting on its debts. The...

The budget and debt ceiling negotiations between the White House and Democrat and Republican leaders of the Congress have not been especially fruitful so far. Based on Treasury estimates, the United States Government will run out of money sometime around August 2 unless the $14.29 trillion debt...

Stock prices across Asia continued to fall during trading on Monday over worries about possible defaults on sovereign debt facing the United States and the European Union. There is growing concern that President Barack Obama and the United States Congress will be unable to agree to raise the debt...

Humana Inc. (NYSE.HUM), Coventry Health Care (NYSE: CVH), Aetna (NYSE: AET), and a whole slew of other health care plan providers and HMOs are up today on hopes - perhaps assumptions - that Massachusetts will seat a Republican senator rather than a Democratic one in the special election underway to...