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Topic: Economics (page 23)

President Barack Obama and former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Jared Bernstein

France's Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde visits a Parisian supermarket and goods retailer in Paris Thursday May 19, 2011. Lagarde has emerged as a potential candidate to replace IMF chief, Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn who resigned Wednesday, saying he wants to devote "all his energy" to fighting sexual assault charges in New York. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) (AP)

Martin Crutsinger, Christopher S. Rugaber

Osama Bin Laden. Right: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court

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FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn, 62, seen as the strongest potential challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 presidential elections, was pulled off a plane bound for Paris at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday May 14, 2011, and subsequently arrested in connection with the violent sexual assault of a New York hotel maid. Political rivals expressed shock at his arrest. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2011, file photo U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions at the closing press conference of the G20 Finance summit in Paris. Five years and one financial crisis since the United States and China commenced regular high-level economic talks, fast-growing Beijing might have the upper hand Monday, May 9, 2011, in the latest round of discussions between the world's two biggest economies. While analysts don't foresee major breakthroughs at the talks Monday and Tuesday, China's expanding economic might will give it greater leverage now. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) (Francois Mori)

Jonathan Easley

The Koch brothers

When billionaires buy their own professors

Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises

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David Brooks

Left to right, clockwise: Philippe Dauman, Richard Adkerson, Ray Irani, David Zaslav, Leslie Moonves

Natasha Lennard

In this April 25, 2011 photo, a "We're Hiring!" sign is shown at Office Depot in Mountain View, Calif. More people sought unemployment benefits last week, the second rise in three weeks, a sign the job market's recovery is slow and uneven.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

Unemployment is up -- and that's good news

Natasha Lennard

In this May 3, 2011 photo, job seekers wait in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits surged last week to the highest level in eight months, a sign the job market may be weakening.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (AP)

Why Washington must deal with the economy -- now

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Christopher S. Rugaber

S&P's outlook: A lesson we already know

Natasha Lennard

President Obama and Paul Ryan

Alexander Hamilton

William Hogeland

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An image from the cover of economist Barry Eichengreen's "Exorbitant Privilege"

President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011, while meeting the the co-chairmen of his deficit reduction commission. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Alyssa Battistoni

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, walks next to Chinese President Hu Jintao after the closing session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) (AP)

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President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during his visit to a UPS shipping facility in Landover, Md., Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Michael Winship

In a March 30, 2011 photo, Peter Gordon poses for a photo in his apartment, in St. Louis. Gordon, who has been out of work for a year, could lose his unemployment benefits in coming months because of efforts by several Republican Missouri state senators to block the use of an estimated $105 million of federal unemployment benefits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (AP)

Christopher S. Rugaber

Edmund Randolph

William Hogeland

FILE - In this file photo taken March 18, 2011, James Doherty, right, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Hopes that a U.S. jobs report later will show the world's largest economy is clearly on the mend helped global stocks post solid gains Friday, April 1, 2011, despite ongoing concerns over the situation in Libya. (AP Photo, file) (AP)

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