Newsweek

A Republican revival requires both Democratic blunders and Republican talent to refute them. The occurrence of the former is certain because of the enthusiasm for bailouts; the appearance of the...

No president would think of moving into the White House without known and trusted advisers like David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett. At the same time, the recurrent presidential obsession with...

Two things were missing from this year's World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland: snow (which arrived eventually) and America bashing (which did not). There were, of course, lots of American...

The case for [Barack] Obama's electability is strengthened by the example of Colin Powell, who might well have won had he run in 1996. ... Unlike Powell, Obama has no...

It is now a moderate position to believe in the full participation of women; 30 years ago it was a radical position, and 50 years ago it was barely a...

Bull markets are a young person's game. But no one will admit it in this stock-happy era. Nowadays financial planners routinely tell retirees to keep a big slug of their...

He crafts his business proposals while sprawled on a mountaintop. She counsels her clients from the breezy comfort of her lakeside deck. They make scads of money and deduct everything,...

Recent rate spikes are bringing out the mortgage-market uglies. By last week, 30-year fixed mortgages had jumped from January's 7.32 percent to about 8.3 percent, knocking 200,000 people out of...

Last year's feel-good stock market felt pretty bad to Bill Sams, the 58-year-old fund manager of FPA Paramount. A veteran of the 1973-74 bear market, he's eternally wary. These days,...

Mutual fund managers get paid like kings to manipulate your money. Managers of large funds with good returns can easily collect more than $1 million a year. But smart investors...