Columnist Jeremy Siegel

When I was studying in graduate school in the 1960s there was a big debate among economists: Which version of macroeconomics best described the world, Keynesian or Monetarist? The Keynesians claimed that fluctuations in aggregate demand determined

President Obama made the right choice last month in reappointing Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. He could have waited until the fall, or even later, but his early reappointment emphatically proclaims that there was no one else in

The press and the polls say that public support for President Obama's health care reform is slipping. I think I know why. Obama has yet to make a case why his proposals will reduce costs and deliver better care services. And, despite denials by

The U.S. Treasury has put out an 89-page document entitled "Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation." It recommends measures that the Treasury believes would reduce the probability of a future financial crisis like the one we recently

The headlines are scary. Standard and Poor's warns that UK gilts (British Treasury bonds) may lose their AAA rating and indicates that U.S. government bonds may also be downgraded. Bill Gross, PIMCO's "bond king," says emphatically