US Economy

Budget Battles

  • U.S. budget deal could usher in new era of cooperation

    U.S. budget deal could usher in new era of cooperation

    By Richard Cowan and David Lawder, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan budget deal announced in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, though modest in its spending cuts, would end three years of impasse and fiscal instability in Washington...

  • Deficit Reduction: Far Less Than Meets the Eye

    By Tom Blumer, The Fiscal Times

    Congressional budget talks may be winding their way to a narrow agreement on 2014 spending levels, but before the results of those negotiations are announced, there are a couple of reasons to reopen...

  • How Online Education Can Save Our Universities

    By Peter Wood, Minding the Campus

    The wolf at the door of American higher education is online instruction . Traditional residential colleges hear it snuffling at the threshold. They know they are vulnerable. They cannot compete on...

  • Japan household helper plan shows wider immigration dilemma

    Japan household helper plan shows wider immigration dilemma

    By Lisa Twaronite, Reuters

    TOKYO (Reuters) - During the early days of "Abenomics," U.S. businesses were optimistic they could convince Japan's government to make a small change to the nation's tight immigration rules to let...

  • Volcker Rule Lets Bank CEOs ‘Off the Hook’

    By Rob Garver

    CEOs of the largest banks in the country can breathe a little easier this morning, as regulators prepare to vote on the so-called Volcker Rule, the element of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that...