...passing legislation will not stop illegal immigration. Why is immigration illegal in the first place? The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that illegal immigrants contribute more than $14 billion annually to the U.S. gross domestic product...

The U.S. economy ended last year on an encouraging note. Factories produced more, shoppers spent more and companies hired more -- pointing to a stronger economy in 2011.

WASHINGTON --- The Federal Reserve is confident in the economy and about to end a $600 billion program to support it. Now for the next step -- figuring out how to keep inflation from taking off.

NEW YORK - With Clorox Co. and FedEx Corp. announcing big price increases, business executives wringing their hands about sharply higher costs and Federal Reserve officials openly discussing their pricing concerns, inflation suddenly seems to be public enemy No. 1.

The U.S. economy faces threats at home and abroad that have the potential to dull growth or stoke inflation -- or both.

Quoting Robert D. McTeer Jr., president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, "Growth comes through change and causes change." As a resident of Richmond County, I'm convinced that in order for my community...

SAVANNAH - Politicians survive on relationships. It's their most precious commodity, what pushes legislation through the Statehouse and lands them in office. And it's one of the main reasons why about 700 state lawmakers from 16 states descended on Savannah last weekend for the annual Southern Legislative Conference.

We've all heard Grandpa recall when a bottle of Coke cost a nickel.

If tax-writers set out to write a whole new federal tax code, would they produce the intricately complicated, thousands-of-pages long monstrosity that frustrated Americans must deal with today? Of course not.