Canada's Conservative government, which won re-election last month, plans to focus on the economy and avoid battles with opposition parties over its justice policies, a senior aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday.

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia will cut income and dividend taxes next year to inject more cash into the economy, which suffered about $1 billion in damage from a five-day war with Russia in August.

The Tory recovery plan published yesterday is supposed to persuade us that David Cameron and George Osborne are heavyweights who will know what to do if we put them in charge of the economy.

In a study released Tuesday by the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce, 59 percent of chamber member businesses, which responded to the survey, consider the local economy to be very strong, strong or moderately strong.

The letter arrived filled with eye-popping details about a nail salon owner who takes in $3 million a year, in cash, and doesn't pay taxes on any of it. What's...