Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with "tea party" protests that Republicans are calling the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismiss as a fraud. Organizers promised hundreds of protests across the country against taxes and Obama's big-spending budget proposals. Obama says his budget will jump start the economy out of recession, but protesters ...

If you make a date to be on a late-night talk show, it's best not to back out. John McCain learned that lesson the hard way with David Letterman last fall, and CNBC reporter Rick Santelli just took it on the chin from Jon Stewart ...

CNBC says reporter Rick Santelli is not connected to a Web site that used his name to promote a series of political protests against President Barack Obama. Santelli's name was stripped from headlines on the home page of http://www.reteaparty.com Monday after ...

For several weeks I’ve been writing about the need for the government’s financial stimulus efforts to be supplemented by efforts to instill some degree of confidence in severely depressed consumers and investors. I was thinking in terms of President Reagan’s strategy upon inheriting the similar economic collapse of the ...