President Obama is pushing for Congress to help expand mortgage refinancing to millions of borrowers with loans not backed or owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and those who cannot currently take advantage ...

Through March 2012, the Obama Administration’s primary foreclosure prevention campaign has 794,748 borrowers paying a median of $535 less in mortgage payments ­­- but that represents 43 percent of those who ...

The White House website now has a “Buffett Rule Calculator” that invites Americans to quickly figure how many U.S. millionaires pay a less effective federal tax rate than they do. It’s part of an effort ...

President Obama focused his weekly radio and Internet address on urging Congress to increase taxes on millionaires and billionaires, renewing his proposal to enact the so-called Buffet Rule – although it has little ...

Most Americans disapprove of President Obama’s policies on reigning in gasoline prices, but most blame profit-hungry oil companies for higher fuel costs, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll. Sixty-eight percent ...

The consumer-price index, which measures the cost of living for Americans, jumped the most in 10 months in February, propelled mostly by gasoline. The index increased 0.4 percent, matching forecasts of economists. ...

President Obama today took on GOP opponents on the hottest issue of the moment – climbing gas prices – by touting a report showing that oil imports decreased in 2011 by one million barrels a day. As gas prices ...

Reiterating that the U.S. cannot drill itself out of foreign oil dependency and higher gas prices, President Obama said improved fuel efficiency standards and ending $4 billion in subsidies to U.S. oil companies ...

Deflecting an already rising tide of criticism over gas prices, President Obama warned the nation that there are “no short-term silver bullets” to solve the problem. But the President also said his administration ...

Simplifying the tax code for small business owners and providing tax relief can help them tend to important issues, such as sales and hiring, according to the President’s framework for overhauling the corporate ...