How to curb executive pay has become a hot-button issue now that American taxpayers are shareholders in the nation’s largest banks.

Top commanders believe the financial meltdown will have a serious impact on future Pentagon spending.

Even before the crisis on Wall Street, little appetite for growth in military spending was anticipated, at a time when the Pentagon’s annual base budget has reached $500 billion.

John McCain would cut taxes generally on par with Barack Obama for those making $100,000 to $250,000 a year, independent analyses show.

Senator John McCain’s tax and spending proposals would create larger annual budget deficits than those of Senator Barack Obama, analysts say.

Senator Barack Obama said it was time to “get beyond the old ideological debates,” even as he and Senator John McCain spent the day engaged in just such a debate.

John McCain’s attempts to paint Barack Obama as a quasi socialist can be complicated in this topsy-turvy year of financial collapse.

Winter is coming. The economy is in crisis. People are fearful. So why should we hope oil prices don’t fall too far?

Winter is coming. The economy is in crisis. People are fearful. So why should we hope oil prices don’t fall too far?

Verizon and AT&T have installed temporary communications towers at the Arizona ranch of Senator John McCain to provide cellular telephone coverage there.