Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the Senate will vote sometime this week on the House-passed bill to suspend the debt ceiling, allowing the Treasury to borrow whatever it needs to fund the government through May...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators reached agreement Monday on a new round of stifling sanctions on Iran, targeting energy, shipping and insurance sectors with punitive measures to derail Tehran’s suspected push for nuclear weapons. Lawmakers...

For the past several months we were one of the few to predict economic weakness as the effects from the warmest winter in 65 years, which was skewing the underlying data, came to end.  We have been...