Alan Greenspan

Some snippets from the upcoming book "The Real Romney" currently excerpted in Vanity Fair The special one in the house was [Mitt Romney's wife] Ann, with her wide smile, piercing eyes, and steadying domestic presence. And woe was the boy......

Running a word-count program on the transcript of last night's GOP presidential primary debate I get: Mitt Romney -- 4,649 (34%) Newt Gingrich -- 4,118 (30%) Rick Santorum --2,898 ( 21%) Ron Paul -- 2,095 (15%) This does not include......

You wouldn't expect Mitt Romney, who made a fortune on Wall Street doing leveraged buyouts, to be the one channeling the common man's outrage at a flat-tax proposal. Yet there he was at Monday night's debate in Tampa, Fla., critiquing......

Hollywood luminary and conservative activist Chuck Norris has penned a commentary that lays out the talking points that will be used to criticize Rick Santorum in upcoming Republican primaries: Santorum was a serial earmarker... Santorum voted to raise...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed the front cover of his new book -- and is asking for suggestions for the back photo....

History coughs up plenty of precedent for modern bad behavior. Politics is dirty today, but not as dirty as it was through much of the 19th century. Business is diabolically heartless today — often at the expense of the average person — but no...

With a national debt of more than $14.8 trillion that is increasing by a trillion and a half per year, each one of the nation’s official residents of more than 300 million is on the hook for some $49,000. The debt burden for individual taxpayers...

The recent surge by Herman Cain to the top of the GOP field was not fueled by the tea party. The tea party was the first to embrace Mr. Cain because of his 9-9-9 tax plan and because he speaks like a businessman rather than a politician, which is very...

In the midst of the debt ceiling debate and continued economic uncertainty, it might be helpful to see how we reached the current situation. Are there any lessons for us? The economic crisis shows little sign of improvement after three years of...

On Tuesday's 10th anniversary of the passage of the 2001 Bush tax cuts, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget put out a statement arguing that the cuts shouldn't be extended unless they are paid for. I'm with Alan Greenspan on this...

SATURDAY The Chris Matthews Show Wall Street; super committee: Dan Rather, HD Net; Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times; Gloria Borger, CNN; Rana Foroohar, Time. (N) 5 p.m.; Sunday 5:30 a.m. KNBC McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today......

CBS' "Face the Nation" will talk to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod; and Howard Dean, former chair of the Democratic National Committee. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG-Channel 6....