It should be obvious that government must play a critical role in developing new technologies. Government can promote ideas based solely on potential merit or benefit, while private investors must focus on profitability. By supporting pure research and nurturing innovative approaches to solving national needs, the government also provides an invaluable resource to commercial ventures, sometimes in the most ...

by JAMES PETHOKOUKIS, September 23, 2012 Which candidate, President Obama or Mitt Romney, has the right prescription for what ails the US economy? It’s a question — maybe the key question — that every voter should ask. But first you need the answer to a different puzzler: What went wrong? Why did the US economy surge in the 1980s and 1990s, only to stagnate and sink in the 2000s? Read more: http://www.nypos ...

Mitt Romney reveals that his real economic plan relies on magic. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/opinion/krugman-the-optimism-cure.html?smid=pl-share ...

It's amazing. America is slipping behind the industrialized world. Our democracy, our very way of life, is threatened. But we stubbornly refuse to pay higher taxes -- we even refuse to allow the wealthiest among us, who have gotten disproportionately wealthier in recent years -- no matter how much it hurts us. Goodbye, America. Goodbye, light of the world. August 14, 2012 ...Italy may be in a funk, with a s ...

What does David Stockman know? He's just a former Wall Street banker and CEO of a Detroit auto parts manufacturer, a three-term Republican Congressman, and Director of the Office of Management of the Budget under Ronald Reagan. We can't be listening to the likes of him. August 13, 2012 Paul D. Ryan’s talk of shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job creators” will do nothing to reverse the nation ...

Instead of repudiating a casino mogul’s billions, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get even closer and jeopardize the integrity of their campaign. Read the complete editorial: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/opinion/in-thrall-to-sheldon-adelson.html?smid=pl-share ...

This isn't an easy story to follow, so it's unlikely that it'll ever make a big splash on the cable networks, but it appears that British and American banks were laundering money for anti-American interests. August 8,2012 Until the law was changed in 2008, global banks could circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran, Cuba, North Korea, sponsors of terrorist cells and drug cartels Vubdisguise clients identities ...

The NY Post's Charles Gasparino criticizes the head of Knight for the failure of his company's computerized trading program, but lays much of the blame on Mary Shapiro, head of the SEC, for not doing enough to ensure the integrity of the markets. Exchanges’ computerized Achilles heel August 8, 2012 The disaster at Knight Capital Group is about a lot more than a computerized-trading program gone wrong — it a ...

August 6,2012 If any of your friends or family think the Republicans' obstinate and irrational ways are not screwing up the economy, they should consider this. Morgan Stanley surveyed businesses in July and found that 40% of them are slowing their hiring and investments because of the uncertainty created by "the fiscal cliff." And, if you don't think that the fiscal cliff is a Republican creation, you need ...

Less than 30% of firms offer The time-honored American institution of a company-financed pension is going the way of the company car. The defined-benefit pension is a vestige of a bygone era, says Alex Pollock, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who also questions the idea of Uncle Sam guaranteeing pensions. That is a system that started back in the 1970s at the suggestion of Nat Weinberg, an e ...