For years, there has been an ongoing discussion among world leaders and thinkers about deficiencies in the international financial architecture and about economic imbalances, including the widening U.S. trade deficit. Many worried about a disorderly unwinding of these imbalances. Nothing was done. ...

U.S. drivers need to pay more gas taxes and new user fees to fix crumbling roads and bridges and ease congested highways, a transportation commission is set to recommend to Congress later this month.

U.S. regulators working to untangle Bernard Madoff a s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme are probing other money managers suspected of using similar tactics, two people with knowledge of the inquiries said.

Vehicle sales in the United States tumbled more than 35 percent in December, dragging the Detroit automakers' full-year totals down to their lowest levels in nearly half a century.

A group of activists, watermen and former officials filed a lawsuit this morning against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, trying to force an overhaul of the troubled government campaign to clean the Chesapeake Bay. .