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Who's afraid of the big bad cliff?

Source: Mail and Guardian , Nov 16 2012, 4:09pm CST

The automatic spending cuts and tax increases that threaten to send the globe's largest economy back into recession. The problem of the fiscal cliff has everyone from international investors to our own finance minister worr ...

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1 hour ago

Improving economy changes political landscape

Source: The Seattle Times  |   May 25 2013, 7:48am CDT

Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of ...

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2 hours ago

The Half-forgotten Debt Crisis

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 25 2013, 7:21am CDT

The attention span in Washington DC these days is remarkably short, and multi-tasking is something at which Congress seems particularly inept. So right now the focus there is overwhelming on just one thing, scandals - some genuine, some i ...

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27 weeks ago


Quote:
"It is critical that Obama get Republicans on board"


Source: Mail and Guardian

 
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2 hours ago

Pentagon sequestration cuts not that harmful

Source: The Sentinel Source  |   May 25 2013, 7:05am CDT

WASHINGTON — A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security if they took effect. The change from near-hy ...

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3 hours ago

CEOs storm Washington

Source: The Politico  |   May 25 2013, 5:59am CDT

Once it might have taken a subpoena to get a CEO to participate in the public shame ritual of a televised Senate hearing. This week Apple CEO Tim Cook volunteered. Continue Reading That’s how much CEO attitudes have changed about playing the W ...

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4 hours ago

Senate budget plan calls for $68M in new spending

Source: Sentinel & Enterprise  |   May 25 2013, 5:30am CDT

BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Senate has given final approval to its version of the state budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House over the $34 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Senators passed the budget ...

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8 hours ago

Saturday Shorts: The case against bipartisanship

Source: Detroit News Online  |   May 25 2013, 12:51am CDT

Matt Purple in The American Spectator : The bipartisan machine grinds on. The criticism most commonly leveled at Republicans over Obamacare is that they refused to find common ground with Democrats. Sen. Ted Cruz is called a monster for sho ...

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9 hours ago

Fed furlough day after cuts hampers IRS, HUD services

Source: Detroit News Online  |   May 25 2013, 12:10am CDT

Washington — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide. It was "furlough ...

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10 hours ago

The Debt-Limit Dance

Source: Town Hall  |   May 24 2013, 11:30pm CDT

Get ready for a little déjà vu from Washington. The federal government hit the debt ceiling, now set at a whopping $16.8 trillion. Yes, again. It’s like the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day” -- only this time, unfort ...

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12 hours ago

Budget Dispute Deepens a Rift Within G.O.P.

Source: The New York Times  |   May 24 2013, 8:56pm CDT

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are locked in a widening internal dispute over future budget negotiations, splitting along generational and ideological lines on the party’s approach to the central issue that drove the c ...

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