Recovery still on track, according to many economists

Asian stocks mostly higher on US recovery optimism
Asian stocks were mostly higher Friday after encouraging U.S. housing and employment reports sent Wall Street to its highest level this year and added to growing optimism of a recovery in the...

AP survey: Economy to pick up but still vulnerable
The U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 — if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

Stocks tumble late to end sharply lower
U.S. stocks open higher, lifted by rising optimism that the U.S. economy is pulling itself up by its bootstraps. But the European debt crisis looms like a shadow over those hopes.

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High...
We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the...

The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the...
Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial...