Government And Institutions

New email surfaces in the IRS Lois Lerner controversy—this time, Lerner was clearly upset about an IRS staffer who was getting paid up to $138,136 annually for doing union work.

Former SAC portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was sentenced to nine years in prison on insider trading charges.

A new report from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  projects that health spending will increase by 3.6% in 2013, but will increase considerably over the next 10 years.

The U.S. on Friday hit 25 Iranian companies and people with fresh sanctions over the country's nuclear program. 

Consumer spending unexpectedly fell in July while savings rose to the highest level in more than a year and a half -- signs households remain cautious.

Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods posted the biggest gain on record on the back of strong international aircraft demand.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed suit against Oracle over its health exchange website, alleging the firm 'repeatedly lied and defrauded the state.'

Consumer prices barely budged as declining energy prices helped offset food, rents prices, adding ammo for the Fed to keep rates low.

The Treasury Department is preparing options for use by Secretary Jacob Lew to stem the tide of U.S. companies seeking to relocate overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Germany, long a bright spot in Europe’s troubled economy, is sustaining what appears to be a significant blow from turbulence in Russia and Ukraine.

The CFPB warned consumers over the risks of bitcoin, the controversial cyber currency that has garnered much media attention this year. 

The government says it will sell $67 billion in Treasury securities next week as part of its regular quarterly refunding auctions.

It’s not just fat cat hedge funds, banks, or Wall Street investment companies that benefit when U.S. companies cut their tax bills by moving their headquarters overseas via mergers with foreign concerns.

Attention all super heroes competing for our attention this summer on the big screen: We’re just not into you anymore. Or at least not as much as we were, or our kids were.

The U.S. Treasury Department has raised by $22 billion its estimate of what it needs to borrow in the third quarter to keep the government operating.

What would happen if we judged a lawmakers' success by how many rules they took off the books? How much money they saved and tax code deleted? 

What would happen if we judged a lawmakers' success by how many rules they took off the books? How much money they saved and tax code deleted? 

U.S. construction spending fell in June by the largest amount in more than three years as housing, non-residential construction and government spending all weakened.

Back-slapping is ingrained in our political culture, and woe to the politician on either side who doesn’t embrace its effective power.

Back-slapping is ingrained in our political culture, and woe to the politician on either side who doesn’t embrace its effective power.