NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators are pressing New York financial firm Citigroup Inc, to shake up its leadership team, sources said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Fiscal irresponsibility is now a calamitous cycle that poses a bigger threat than al-Qaida and its plans to attack the United States with a weapon of mass destruction. David Walker, the Paul Revere of a total economic and financial collapse on the present course, says the United States has a fiscal cancer "that is growing within us."

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Peter Orszag, announced Tuesday as President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, has a dazzling resume.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers will tap experience in shaping world economic polices in his new White House role.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Some 130 million American voters -- more than the entire population of Japan and enough to make them the world's 10th most populous country -- will go to the polls Tuesday in the most exciting and extraordinary election in modern times.

DETROIT, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Policy makers are weighing the importance of the U.S. auto industry to the nation's economy in debating a new government loan for troubled carmakers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said the nation needs another stimulus package to kick-start the economy.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who backs Barack Obama for president, said Sunday the U.S. economy is more likely to get worse than to get better.

WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- The Democratic and Republican candidates for U.S. president need different qualities in a vice presidential running mate, political analysts say.