Fiscal Cliff

Budget Battles

  • 4 Ways the GOP Convention Can Win it for Romney

    By Edward Morrissey

    Next week’s Republican convention marks the real start of the presidential campaigns. That’s when voters typically start paying attention to the election and assessing the candidates and the issues...

  • Fed Considers New Push for Ailing Economy: QE3

    By PEDRO DA COSTA and Alister Bull, Reuters

    The Federal Reserve is likely to deliver another round of monetary stimulus "fairly soon" unless the economy improves considerably, minutes from the U.S. central bank's latest meeting suggested.

  • CBO on Fiscal Cliff: Slow Growth or a New Recession

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The latest economic update from the CBO almost perfectly crystallizes the challenge before lawmakers: Cut the deficit or create jobs, but you’ll struggle to do both at the same time. Navigating the...

  • National Parks Show Signs of Federal Budget Cuts

    By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

    After more than a decade of scrimping and deferring maintenance and construction projects — and absorbing a 6 percent budget cut in the past two years — the signs of strain are beginning to surface...

  • GOP Preview: Can Romney Win as ‘The Man from Bain’?

    By Eric Pianin

    Romney intends to meet the Bain Capital controversy head on during the four days of the GOP convention next week. Meanwhile, he hasn’t gotten quite the bump he might have hoped for from his pick of...