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Washington - The troubled federal agency that oversees all aspects of offshore leasing will split in two in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion, an …

Fannie Mae announced a $11.5 billion quarterly loss Monday. The mortgage giant's continued poor performance has added urgency to the question of how – or whether – it should …

More war, fewer jobs, poor excuses. Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding? Early in 2009, President Barack …

The European Union came up with a trillion dollar bail-out for itself at the dawn's early light. It already goosed the Euro back above $1.30 — just when they …

Technical jargon conceals by confusion. The immense scale of the problem surrounding the sinking of the Transocean drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, requires that the public stay alert when confronted …

Deeply embedded in the conventional wisdom is the idea that educating is mostly about making a living rather than making a life. Given that assumption, education reforms that promise …

During his campaign for Ted Kennedy's well-worn Senate seat, Scott Brown carried on about Democrats' “wasteful spending” of our tax dollars. Senators customarily bring home the bacon by attaching …

Last week, the U.S. Senate rejected a plan that would have broken up the nation's six largest banks firms into firms that could fail without wreaking havoc on the …

Two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs was on the Congressional hot seat, grilled for fraud in its sale of complicated financial products called “synthetic CDOs.” Last week the heat was …

Washington - The oil industry, not the federal agency that regulates it, plays a crucial role in writing the safety and environmental rules for offshore drilling, a role that …