This story from Romney's home town Boston Herald, on the back of his big pro-tax cut speech to the Detroit Economic Club yesterday,...

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If you think the offensive production of Peyton Manning and the Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts was spectacular, you ain't seen...

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Unless you are from Oklahoma, one or more probably both of your senators voted to increase prices of virtually everything in America. The Fa...

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Claire McCaskill is a Democrat from Missouri about to take her place in the federal Senate for the first time. As far as I am concerned she is more qualified to sit in Washington than most; instead o...

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The history of semiconductor manufacturing is peppered with one amazing story after another. The industry has overcome issue after issue...

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When Chris Petersen, head football coach of the Boise State University Broncos held up the Fiesta Bowl trophy after his team's amazing...

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The number is out: another 167,000 payroll jobs created in December....

The ISM manufacturing index beat the street rising to 51.4 percent in December, up from 49.5 percent in November. This is very good...

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The overall economic growth rate did not suffer greatly from 9/11 - consumer spending was higher in October 2001 than it was before...

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On Tuesday, the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) released a study called...

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One of the centerpieces of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's reelection campaign this year was a promise to raise the state's minimum...

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