Topic: Newt Gingrich

Out on the campaign trail, Fed head Ben Bernanke is an unpopular guy.    Read More

These strategists aren't ruling out another credit-rating cut for U.S. debt.   Read More

The 2012 presidential campaign offers Republicans the opportunity for a robust debate on the roles of free markets and state intervention in defining the opportunities the economy offers Americans.    Read More

Pundits, pollsters, and political forecasters can agree on at least one thing following this tumultuous Republican primary season. Not since 1976, when Ronald Reagan racked up victories in Southern and Midwest primaries and took his fight all the way to the Republican convention that year, has the race for the Republican nomination been so interesting.    Read More

Newt Gingrich ratcheted up his attacks against GOP rival Mitt Romney Thursday but said that doesn't mean he's against capitalism. “I am very pro free market, I am very pro capitalism,” Gingrich said.   Read More

The Fed’s forecast that rates could stay low for another three years provides juice for risk assets like stocks, but signals more worries for the economy.    Read More

So far, the presidential election has not impacted stocks, but that could change if Mitt Romney fades as the likely Republican nominee.    Read More

So far, the presidential election has not impacted stocks, but that could change if Mitt Romney fades as the likely Republican nominee.    Read More

Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing more than vulture capitalism, looting companies, and destroying jobs. Keeping class envy alive.    Read More

Might a strong Newt Gingrich debate performance tonight trump the ABC Nightline interview with Newt’s ex-wife Marianne?   Read More