As the world trained its eyes on Copenhagen last Friday to learn the location of the 2016 Olympic Games, I sat in a bar in Washington with an old friend.
We were waiting for the results of a different contest altogether.
The race we were interested in has far larger economic ramifications than the Olympics and every [...]

A small company is on the receiving end of $249 million from the U.S. government. And it’s about to go public.
The IPO takes place Thursday, September 24th.
IPOs like this are rare, but they’re rewarding. Especially when they’re backed by the most powerful financial force on the planet: Uncle Sam.
On May 13, 2009, the last time [...]

In what the U.S. Department of Energy says is a “major milestone in the effort to spur private sector investments in clean energy and create new jobs for America’s workers,” the Department of Energy and the Treasury today gave $502 million to “green” energy companies in place of tax credits.

U.S. citizens enjoy a full measure of every kind of freedom.  So it’s something of a paradox that our great nation also leads the world in incarceration.  The U.S. has more human beings behind bars than any other nation on earth, and by a wide margin — four times the world average. The United States [...]