Greg Mankiw, the former economic adviser to Mitt Romney, is out with a new paper that aims to "defend the 1 percent" and the status quo of income equality in the United States.  In the 23-page paper, Mankiw attempts to tackle the question o

While speaking at the 2013 Faith & Freedom Coalition conference, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) took a swipe at 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney...

Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Business and former economic advisor to Mitt Romney Glenn Hubbard swung by the Business Insider offices for a wide ranging interview on economic topics. In this segment, we discussed the Federal Reserve, and th

Internal Revenue Service attorneys who donated to President Barack Obama outnumbered lawyers at the agency who gave to Mitt Romney by a ratio of nearly 20-to-1, according to a California law professor's analysis of campaign finance data.

Last week, the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah, hosted Mitt Romney's Experts and Enthusiasts conference. Billed as Romney's first big splash back into...

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republicanpresidential candidate, won among voters over the age of 30, butlost younger voters by 23 points. That statistic has gotten alot of attention from Republicans, especially since they havenow lost young voters in three p

The beauty of losing a presidential election is that you have a bunch of free time to invite your closest friends in business and politics to an awesome retreat at an exclusive resort in Utah. The Washington Post reports that this week, Mitt Romney h

Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney told CNN he was "very upset" over his infamous comments that "there are 47 percent of the people who...

If things had gone differently last November when President Obama soundly secured a second term over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, had Romney come away the victor, the White House would have received a massive Bain-ification day 1 makeover. Time's

Can a new crop of private equity candidates avoid Mitt Romney's mistakes? It may be harder than it looks.

Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is returning to Utah after purchasing a home near his son Josh's residence. Salt Lake County records show Romney...

Over the last decade and a half, former Vice President Al Gore has amassed a personal fortune that rivals former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's, Bloomberg's Ken Wells and Ari Levy report. Gore wasn't even a multi-millionaire when he

Mitt Romney's net worth of $250 million is well-known by virtually everyone in America: after all, it was the primary campaign offensive used by the Obama team against his presidential challenger in an election run largely down wealth, and social cla

In one of his first public speeches since his failed presidential bid, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney delivered the commencement address at Southern Virginia University this weekend — and he had  a pretty strange message for the gra

Former Republican presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced Tuesday the list of high-profile speakers who will appear at a June retreat he will...

Tagg Romney, the oldest son of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), told CNN on Tuesday that whoever is behind the Boston Marathon bombing "messed...

At a Georgia town hall meting in March, Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.) said Mitt Romney was correct in his infamous "47 percent" statistic, adding that...

The Obama administration has released a 6 page summary of the President's budget plan, set to come out in full sometime today.  While the budget is already controversial — the plan contains new taxes, a buried cut to Social Security a

You don't have to have an offshore account to reduce your taxes! There are plenty of legal loopholes that you are probably not taking advantage of.

Should you have anything left in your InTrade account after letting it ride on Mitt Romney, disbelief in the Higgs boson and Zero Dark Thirty, you have nothing to fear: You’ll get all your money back after the former betting site successfully p

When Mitt Romney wants to get away from it all, he tucks away in 3,000 square-foot estate in picturesque La Jolla, California. The former U.S....

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would cap multimillion-dollar tax-favored retirement accounts like the one held by Mitt Romney, his Republican rival in 2012....

New details about the President's budget proposal — due out April 10 — have emerged from a senior White House official, POLITICO's Ben White reported this morning.  One of the major elements of the surprisingly centrist proposal come

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As Tesla Motors continues to drive towards profitability, it's increasingly apparent that former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was wrong when he lumped the car maker into a laundry list of alternative energy "l

Contradicting what I wrote in my previous post about IRAs being irrelevant to upper-middle class and wealthy people, we have the curious case of Mitt Romney, who reported in his 2010 tax returns an IRA worth between $20 million and $100 million. 

Brad DeLong: reviews Nicholas Eberstadt's "A Nation of Takers": ... If there was a single moment when Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, it was in May when he stood in front of the $50,000-a-plate audience at Sun Capital...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Young Republicans stillstung by Mitt Romney's defeat in November are looking for aWhite House candidate with a message they can run with. Forsome, that means going...

Former GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his comeback today at CPAC, the big conservative annual conference. He used his somewhat curious appearance to make the case for U.S. engagement overseas, offering a neoconservative vision of American

The non-partisan Tax Policy Center is out with a dismantling of Paul Ryan's new budget proposal that hits its lack of specifics in much of the same way it slammed Mitt Romney's tax-code revamp during the presidential campaign last summer. In its stud

History sometimes has a way oftying itself up with a little bow. That’s the way I felt inJanuary when I introduced Scott Prouty, the bartender-turned-videographer who helped sink Mitt Romney’s presidentialcampaign, to Teddy Goff, the 28-y

WASHINGTON -- Now that he's gone public, Scott Prouty, the man behind the infamous "47 percent" video of Mitt Romney's remarks at a Florida fundraiser,...

Nine in ten of America's fastest-growing counties by population are in states that went for Mitt Romney in November, according to new Census data. Only Fredericksburg, Virginia made the cut among blue states. Growth in the rest was largely driven by

On the same night MSNBC's Ed Schultz scored a big scoop by interviewing the bartender who filmed Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comments, he announced that his show would be moving to a new weekend slot. Schultz said tonight that "The Ed Show" would move

The man who dealt a significant blow to Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign by filming — and subsequently releasing — damaging comments from a fundraiser will be revealed tonight during an appearance on "The Ed Show" on MSNBC.

Later today, Americans will finally get to meet the cater-waiter who recored and then leaked the video revealing Mitt Romney's now infamous "47 percent" comments. The man, whose identity is being withheld until he appears on MSNBC's "The Ed

As the Papal voting gets underway, it's hard not to be reminded of the 2012 GOP primary. At the time, everyone knew that Mitt Romney was the favorite, while the others (Newt, Santorum, etc.) tried to emerge as the anti-Romney. At the Vatican, Angelo

Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid doesn't appear to have dampened the spirits of other political hopefuls in the private equity community.As reported this afternoon over at LBO Wire, Advent International Partner Gabriel Gomez has resigned f

Doug BandowOver the last decade the Republican Party put militarism before limited government. The Bush administration foolishly invaded Iraq. Presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney sounded even more extreme. GOP politicians denounced th

Electoral politics did not exactly suit Mitt Romney’s talents. The winner of exactly one general election in three tries, Romney has now joined the likes of Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and Al Gore in obscurity of the forcibly-retired sectio

The former presidential candidate is once again a private equity executive, but not at Bain Capital.

NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - Four months after losing thepresidential election to Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is joininghis son's investment firm, a Romney adviser said on Wednesday.

BOSTON -- Mitt Romney has a new position with his son's Boston-area venture capital firm. Last year's Republican presidential nominee will serve as chairman of...

The former Massachusetts governor and head of Bain Capitalwill join Solamere Capital, where his son Taggart serves as a managing partner, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Mr. Romney is expected to spend a portion of his time serving as cha

To end your Wednesday, we have news that Mitt Romney is returning to the private sector, Carl Icahn likely to oppose the Dell sale and the FBI is monitoring the Web. The post peHUB Second Opinion 3.6.13 appeared first on peHUB.

Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has a new job....

NBC News reports Mitt Romney will join Solamere Capital in a part-time role.

Jeb Bush’s reversal on immigration reform throws a wrench into the conventional wisdom surrounding the 2016 presidential election, where many expected Bush would run as a moderate antidote to Mitt Romney’s hardline campaign. His

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is on the hunt for an emergency manager to turn around Detroit's financial crisis after declaring the city in a state...

Doug BandowOver the last decade the Republican Party put militarism before limited government. The Bush administration foolishly invaded Iraq. Presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney sounded even more extreme. GOP politicians denounced th

Mitt Romney gave his first extensive postmortem interview Sunday after his 2012 election loss, appearing on "Fox News Sunday" alongside his wife, Ann. Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Romney to explain what many saw as the downfall of his campaign &