Don Lee

Would the country be better off without a debt limit? Maybe. Probably. Honestly, I don’t know. But I’m certain I would be. If I didn’t have a debt limit, I’d have a house in Malibu, and a Ferrari, and a Gulfstream, and...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke tells it like it is -- sort of -- at a congressional hearing....

Amid increasing domestic political pressure and turbulent global economic conditions, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would let its massive bond-buying program expire in a matter of days and announced no new initiative to prop up the American...

The nuclear crisis in Japan, even if authorities are able to bring damaged reactors under control, has cast doubts on the future of nuclear power as a clean-energy solution in the United States and around the globe. Before the recent events in Japan, the...

Once-renegade Republican's fiscal conservatism gains new credibility amid Democrats' immense spending....

On Monday, my colleague Don Lee and Mark Whitehouse of the Wall Street Journal both took up the issue of how problems with mortgages are affecting the broader economy. But their approaches to the issue are so radically different, it's......

by Mike Memoli In an effort to highlight what the White House sees as one of its major success stories, President Obama is visiting two Michigan auto plants that he says are thriving in part because of significant government assistance.......

A Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Here's a look at headlines you may have missed from the Trib's Washington bureau this weekend. * Jim Tankersley profiles Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, playing a lead role in the......

The government’s dismal report on May private-sector job creation has been casting a long shadow -- a sign of just how badly many Americans (or at least, economists) wanted to believe that employment was finally coming around. My colleague Don......

by Don Lee The unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent in the prior month, but employers eliminated another 20,000 net jobs over the month, the government said today in a report that shows the......

by Don Lee The U.S. economy grew at an accelerated pace in the last quarter of 2009, driven largely by a rebound in manufacturing and better-than-expected gains in consumer spending and commercial investments, according to Commerce Department statistics...

by Don Lee and Jim Tankersley The Obama administration, offering evidence that its much-maligned efforts to spur economic recovery have begun to take hold, said Tuesday night that the $787-billion stimulus program saved or created 1.5 million to 2...