WINTER HAVEN, Fla., Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Economist and author Allen W. Smith, Ph.D. believes that former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, bears a lot of responsibility for the Social Security funding problems that the nation faces today.

By ALEXANDER PANETTA OTTAWA (CP) - A key architect of the original Canada-U.S. free trade agreement says Canada was right to accept the softwood deal struck Thursday.

Caspar Weinberger, who oversaw a massive US military buildup as Ronald Reagan's defence secretary, died on Tuesday at the age of 88. Weinberger, who was a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, had been suffering from pneumonia and high fever for about a week.

By Elizabeth White Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Caspar W. Weinberger, who oversaw the Pentagon's biggest peacetime spending increase as President Reagan's defense secretary and later was indicted for his role in the Iran-Contra affair, died Tuesday. He was 88.

By Bangor Daily News, Maine Mar. 29--It may seem odd that a man known as "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to cut government spending in the Nixon administration could go on to oversee the biggest peacetime increase in defense spending.