Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown suspended a tax on buying some homes for the first time since 1991 and brought forward 1 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) of spending in an effort to revive the U.K. economy.

Courtesy photoThe Mack Sisters are on the bill at SVSU's Rhea Miller Series. Sisters born in Japan and now residing in Michigan will present a free duo piano concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Rhea Miller Recital...

Conservatism's long heyday in national politics is grinding to an ugly halt. The demise may have been inevitable; cue in Eric Hoffer's oft-quoted line that every cause begins as a movement, turns into a business and degenerates into a racket.

"Economics is a study of the way in which members of society will spontaneously administer their own resources and the relations into which they will spontaneously enter with each other."

As the U.S. economy continues to slide into a recession, those in our society who are truly disadvantaged are less able to absorb the economic shocks and must remain a priority.