Fiscal Cliff

Experts Warn of a Coming Fiscal Crisis as Trump Prepares to Take Charge

By Eric Pianin

With the Republicans’ new national agenda in a state of flux just a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office, some budget and tax analysts are warning of a dimming fiscal...
Both Trump and Clinton Would Drive the Federal Budget off a Cliff

By Rob Garver

A new analysis of the major party candidates’ tax and spending plans by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows that Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both advocating...
Trump Policy Advisor Promises an Astounding $7 Trillion Surplus

By Rob Garver

Donald Trump sent Sam Clovis, who identifies himself as Trump’s chief policy advisor and the national co-chair of his presidential campaign, to Washington on Wednesday to talk to an audience of...
Two Year Budget Deal Passes in the House

By Kelsey Snell, The Washington Post

Congress on Wednesday moved a step closer to clearing a bipartisan budget deal that would boost spending for domestic and defense programs over two years while suspending the debt limit into 2017...
Four Political Issues That Could Tank the Markets

By Jeff Cox, CNBC

Donald Trump's raucous presidential campaign won't be the only thing lighting the political fires this fall. A handful of significant deadlines and policy decisions loom for Washington and Wall...

Washington Inches Toward Another Fiscal Cliff

By Eric Pianin

After a long day of partisan finger pointing over the Amtrak train disaster, bickering over the defense budget, and worrying that the government is short-changing vital highway and infrastructure...
Obama’s Spending Spree Could Push Long-Term Deficit over $1 Trillion

By Matthew Sabas, The Fiscal Times

The decrease in the federal budget deficit has been touted as an accomplishment by many—most recently by President Obama during his State of the Union Address—but America’s debt situation is far from...
Will the Dow Cross 18,000 Threshold in the Week Ahead?

By Patti Domm, CNBC

Traders will be searching for any signs the economy and job market are really kicking into higher gear, as Friday's jobs report suggests. November saw the strongest employment gains in 35 months, and...
Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt

By Eric Pianin

Largely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...
$1.5B Over Budget, 10 Years Late: DHS HQ May Be Cut Off

By Jerry Markon, The Washington Post

The Department of Homeland Security’s long-delayed new headquarters is running into trouble in Congress again, with Republican lawmakers seeking to end funding for the troubled project and Democrats...

Has Romney Changed His Tax and Deficit Cutting Plan?

By Henry Blodget, The Business Insider

Mitt Romney has been remarkably successful in not committing himself to specific policy proposals that might offend certain voters, especially with respect to the economy. As a result, until now, he...
Mitt Romney's Unrelenting Road to Tampa

By Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post

As the presumptive GOP nominee in 2012, Mitt Romney fits more in the category of those who, with more mixed success, have run as true standard-bearers. Think Walter Mondale in 1984, George H.W. Bush...
Santorum Shores Up GOP Conservative Support

By Samuel P Jacobs, Reuters

Four months after dropping out of a GOP presidential race in which he won 11 state contests and was a conservative thorn in the side of presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, the former...
Obama’s Real Presidential Swing State – Greece

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

As the presidential campaigns kick into high gear, fears about the perpetually floundering Greek economy and the European sovereign debt crisis are once again surfacing, with major implications for...
Tea Party, Libertarians Win Big in GOP Platform

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

Tea Party activists and libertarians who will be attending the Republican National Convention next week in Tampa won major victories in the draft platform that will be voted on by the full convention.

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