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What a week it’s been. Just look at the ups and downs of the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note. The week started with the safe haven play...

Of particular interest for us, Fed Chairman Bernanke noted the following in his speech today on “Rebalancing the Global Economy” at the European...

Good news on the domestic front breathed some life into the Dow this week. The new (and, it appears, improved) General Motors came to market to shed...

Ireland, under attack by financial markets for its economic, financial and fiscal problems, may be getting assistance from the international community...

Domestic and global financial markets are being driven by major cross-currents once again. On the home front, dust is still settling in the markets...

As taxpayers, politicians, journalists and wonks grapple with the wide-ranging fiscal plan launched by the chairmen of the President’s debt commission...

As part of its work over the last 2 years, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform looked at how other governments facing big fiscal challenges...

After the Voting – In case you were sleeping, there was an election last week. As a result of the mid-terms, Republicans will control the U.S. House...

All eyes have been on the Fed this week. And the Fed delivered, with more ammunition than expected for its second round of quantitative easing (known...

Last week, the heads of the EU governments agreed on groundbreaking steps to prevent Greece-style fiscal meltdowns from ever happening again and to...

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas has another commentary on CNN Money, discussing Britain's fiscal austerity plan, setting the right place and the...

Today, Standard and Poor’s reaffirmed their rating of the U.K.'s AAA debt instruments in response to the UK’s recently devised fiscal consolidation...