Google earnings aren't just about numbers. New CEO Page will give his first conference call. Also of interest: Zipcar's Nascaq debut and key readings on inflation.

Tax evasion, nonpayment, and underpayment are important factors in the $300 billion the IRS doesn't collect each year. Why the tax evasion? Lack of enforcement is one reason.

The Justice Department, in its appeal to a federal judge in South Carolina asking to intervene in an ACLU lawsuit against a county sheriff, says the policy discriminates against non-Christians.

AP - President Barack Obama coupled a call for $4 trillion in long-term deficit reductions with a blistering attack on Republican plans for taxes, Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday, laying down markers for a roiling debate in Congress and the 2012 presidential campaign to come.

AP - Just like the whole Steroid Era: We'll never really know.