Author : EW News Desk Team

Ever since the turn of the millennium, we've argued that the most fundamental problem facing most of the world, but especially in the US, was the low level of...

A quiet revolution is transforming how medical care is delivered in this country, and it has very little to do with the sweeping health care legislation President Obama just...

After months of fractious debate, the 16 countries that use the euro agreed on a financial safety net for Greece, combining bilateral loans from those European nations with cash...

Perhaps only in California could a group of marijuana smokers call themselves fiscal realists. And yet, faced with a $20 billion deficit, strained state services and regular legislative paralysis,...

While the Google / Chinese government drama is far from played out, one aspect of the situation that hasn't received much attention are the potential implications for China's own...

The ranks of those facing foreclosure swelled by a quarter-million households in the fourth quarter, new government data shows. Households that are at least 90 days delinquent on their...

Despite the fact that it was the lead story on the NYTimes website all day Friday, and then followed on Saturday by a "News Analysis" calling it "Bold", Despite...

EconomyWatch.com reader and Worldwatch Institute (worldwatch.org) publisher from Brazil, Eduardo Athayde, has sent us this thought provoking piece: EconomyWatch.com reader and Worldwatch Institute (worldwatch.org) publisher from Brazil, Eduardo Athayde,...

While far from anything like what a) NEEDS to be done or b) COULD be done, the fact that a major American mortgage holder is - for the first...

Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns. Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns. But...