It seems that President Obama’s impromptu press conference on Tuesday to sell the compromise he worked out with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits has not convinced some of his fellow Democrats. Several Democrats in

Economists divide the government’s tools to influence the economy into two categories: Monetary policy (the Fed’s manipulation of interest rates to speed up or slow down the economy) and fiscal policy (Congress’ use of taxing and spending power).

In his weekly radio address this weekend, President Obama blamed the Republicans for preventing the passage of a bill to extend unemployment benefits through November, saying that their actions also risked holding back the nation’s ability to

The failure of the unemployment extension bill, which also included more federal funding for Medicaid and many more important provisions, will not only mean hundreds of thousands of people around the country will go without unemployment