Fiscal Cliff

Budget Battles

  • Election 2012: Do Candidates Have a Foreign Policy?

    By Patrick Smith

    This has to be the most inward-gazing presidential election in nearly half a century. True, voters are focused on domestic problems: the health care system , joblessness, the fiscal deficit, the...

  • The One Simple Measure That Would Save Social Security

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Social Security already appears to be running aground, just two decades before the program — which accounts for about 20 percent of federal spending — is projected to crash into insolvency.

  • Wall Street Week Ahead: All Eyes on Fed (Again)

    By Rodrigo Campos, Reuters

    The S&P 500 tortoise continues to beat the skeptics. In the absence of data or policy catalysts and with the S&P 500 near four-year highs, market participants are hoping technical indicators...

  • Balancing Investments as Multiple Tax Hikes Loom

    By Mark Miller, Reuters

    Washington's fiscal cliff offers a tax hike for just about everyone to hate. If Democrats and Republicans can't strike a deal on an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts by the end of the year, tax...

  • Fiscal Cliff: Defense Cuts Threaten a Brain Drain

    By David Lawder, Reuters

    The uncertainty over automatic cuts in U.S. defense spending to be triggered in January because of congressional inaction has spread to the engineers and project managers in South Florida's aerospace...