Broker Regulation

Given that hedge funds and hedging are so much in the news, I began to think about the ways a company can hedge its employee benefit costs.

President Barack Obama took the sales pitch for his newly unveiled jobs plan on the road Friday, venturing out of Washington and into the home turf of one of his top Republican antagonists. It was the first of many expected efforts by the president to rally public support for his...

Key elements of the $447 billion jobs package that President Barack Obama unveiled Thursday to a joint session of Congress.

Wasting no time, President Barack Obama is pitching to the public his $447 billion jobs program of tax cuts and new spending after bluntly telling Congress to "stop the political circus" and fix the economy.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, more seniors and disabled Americans on Medicare are experiencing lower costs through discounts on brand-name drugs in the Medicare Part D coverage gap as well as free preventive care.

President Barack Obama is doubling down on a payroll tax cut for workers and small businesses, hoping it will do more to revive the job market than a smaller version has done this year.

The federal health care overhaul survived two lawsuits dismissed Thursday on technicalities, leaving President Barack Obama's signature initiative headed toward a final resolution in the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year.

Officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama will ask Congress in his prime-time speech to deepen existing payroll tax cuts for workers as part of a jobs program that totals nearly $450 billion.