Commentator Robert Samuelson says that contrary to popular wisdom, it's actually the poor and the middle-class who control the government.

Throughout history, rulers have imposed taxes on everything from wigs to windows, but astute tax avoiders have always found a way to escape them.

Marketplace's economics editor Chris Farrell says government needs to push sound saving, rather than sound borrowing.

The budget ax is swinging

Monster.com used to run the official government jobs listing website. It did so for many years under a contract that has now expired and the…

On Friday, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) – all members of…

How important is Facebook's push into digital media? It's huge. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, believes the social network could remake the w…

Call centers are bringing jobs back to the United States. Julius Genachowski, chairman for the FCC, says call centers will hire about 100,000 pe…

The bill is called Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. Because who would want to vote against that? The bill passed in the…

I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do….