Former Mitt Romney economic advisor Greg Mankiw admits something that he probably would never have said during the campaign: Middle class tax rates can’t be set in stone. They might have to rise, too. In a column...

No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said in an interview out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy of the losing Republican nominee. In an interview with the Boston Globe...

Too much about the Republican candidate for the presidency is far too mysterious WHEN Mitt Romney was governor of liberal Massachusetts, he supported abortion, gun control, tackling climate change and a requirement that everyone should buy health...

Mitt Romney’s energy policy whitepaper contains some subtle, curious items. The headline, as we reported earlier, is that he will seek to make the U.S. energy independent by 2020, partially by expanding drilling on federal lands and...

Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney called for increased transparency at the Federal Reserve Monday, voicing his strongest support yet for an audit of the country’s central banking system.  “The answer is yes to that, very plain and...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Led by President Barack Obama, Democrats claimed on Monday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney privately backs controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions from social programs that his new vice presidential...

It’s only been a few hours since Mitt Romney announced House Budget Chair Paul Ryan as his running mate, but the Republican presidential candidate is already distancing himself from Ryan’s signature policy achievement. In what appears to...

Conservatives are over the moon over Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Said one DC insider to Business Insider via IM: “This is literally my wildest dream come true. I...

Last May, Governor Romney stated that in a typical recovery, monthly employment increases should be about 500,000 per month . The sheer implausibility of that statement (assessed in this post) has induced him to reduce his estimate...

You never seem to know with Romney – one day he seems to have a sound understanding of the economy and then the next he seems to alter his position to satisfy his base. Yesterday, he seemed to be...