Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past c

The Senate approved yet another plan to stimulate the economy. It's called, throwing $33 billion at homebuilders. This is, of course, doing nothing but giving money to the greedy people that helped c

Yesterday, in Unregulated Credit Card Rates Are Breaking Down Consumers, I wrote "If ever there were screams of "Please regulate me," these actions by First Premier and Citigroup (C) m

Twenty four Senators and 63 House Representatives have completely lost their minds over pork bellies. Apparently the free market doesn’t work, hog farmers aren’t making enough money, and

Saving the dinosaur press is apparently a bipartisan effort -- and blather from both sides of the aisle doesn’t give a bad idea a patina of credibility. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republ

Greetings from New York where here, and throughout the country, a big to-do is being made over the Commodities Futures Trading Commission confessing that “speculation” may have had someth

If you haven't read Mr. Practicals take on the state of earnings and the implications going forward, please do so—and pass it along to people you care about. It's no longer enough to ask

You remember the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006. No? That was the measure that outlawed online gambling (no kidding -- see Title VIII), to which Victor Palmer said &

In fantasy novels, the intrepid heroes come across a sign saying "This Way Be Dragons." Of course they venture on, facing calamity and death. But such is the nature of fantasy novels. We li

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?Asked by the Roman satirist Juvenal, and before him by Plato, the question remains largely unanswered to this day, despite our system of so-called checks and balances: W