As most consumers assume, typical product pricing relies on the basic rules of supply and demand. But you may sometimes pay more or less for a product because the company that produces it has ...

The general knee-jerk reaction to Microsoft's $99 Xbox plan is that it's crazy, odd, a bad deal. But the move is really the latest in a long line of similar efforts to get consumers to plunk down cash ...

With the confirmation of Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, momentum is growing for a resolution to the outstanding exchange-traded fund applications from asset managers.

The U.S. federal government matches every state at least $1 for each $1 that the state spends on Medicaid. A new study measured the effect of the subsidy by constructing a multi-regional, ...

Proponents of increased college participation, and thus subsidization, often argue that college education is the great income equalizer, as college graduates earn more than non-college graduates.

This statement is also available here as an Adobe PDF. The U.S. Treasury recently reduced its estimates of aggregate losses from the TARP program. It now reports a loss of $42 billion and $30 billion, ...