Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

The furor over Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups stole the show during a hearing intended to discuss financial stability.

IRS workers targeted conservative groups in processing tax-exemption applications. Now the fun begins on Capitol Hill.

Sequestration cuts are starting to be felt across the country, but Capitol Hill is stuck making purely symbolic gestures instead of reaching a financial solution.

Two endeavors — forecasting weather and forecasting economic impacts of Washington decision-making — actually should belong in the same place.

In the end, Rubio’s thirsty moment probably won’t amount to a drop in the proverbial bucket.

One might as well forget trying to send to the halls of Congress a last-minute gift of long-stemmed roses, or candy or whatever else might strike one’s romantic fancy.

Welcome to Capitol Hill High School. That’s what Washington, D.C., looks like as the “fiscal cliff” fight drags on with politics, not policy, driving the debate.

We’re getting closer to the Jan. 1, 2013, fiscal cliff. Some CEOs have decided it’s time for Congress to quit fighting and fix the financial and tax issues.

Obama and Romney cited figures left and right in their first debate, many of which affect your pocketbook. Here’s a breakdown.

The bond-rating companies have waded into the scrum over the debt limit. Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s jumped off the bench and onto the field and are throwing punches. They’re not dispassionately reporting from the press box. Please keep in mind, when you read and watch articles about the debt debate, that Moody’s and S&P