Just a day after the Federal Reserve dropped its key short-term interest rate to 1 percent - matching the generational low reached in 2003-04 - the betting is intensifying on another cut. ...more

November 2, 2008

Ted Johns of New Port Richey offers the unbelievable tale of "Schmeron" and "Schmaliburton." ...more

August 6, 2008

Hardworking Tampa Bay area families are being squeezed by the rising costs of health care, housing, property insurance and, of course, gas prices. Many reformers have been standing up to the White House and urging them for years to change direction and focus on long-term solutions to our energy challenges. Big Oil and their allies in Washington have had a stranglehold over our country's energy policy, and unfortunately families and businesses across America are paying the price. Bipartisan reformers are not giving up, however. ...more

July 4, 2008

Price Of Gas ...more

June 2, 2008

The sudden, shocking increase in the price of oil is a market failure that resembles the damaging excesses of the dot-com bubble, Enron scandal and housing meltdown. ...more

June 2, 2008

The global money markets are seizing dominion over our economic destiny. The scant control the monetary authorities still have of borrowing costs is slipping away. And the misplaced trust in central bankers as the architects and guardians of financial stability is fading faster than the AAA rating on a collateralized debt obligation. ...more

December 8, 2007

Allow Gulf Drilling Sen. Bill Nelson and his "no drilling" cohorts should be proud of themselves. They have succeeded in sending gas prices over $3 a gallon and no end in sight. Of course, they can afford it. Most can't. ...more

November 17, 2007

Oil prices finished above $80 a barrel for the first time Thursday, and prices on the gasoline futures market for October rose as refiners reported production problems after Hurricane Humberto hit Texas. ...more

September 14, 2007