Fiscal Cliff

Budget Battles

  • The 29-Year Old Who Wants to Be the Next Norquist

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge has spawned an imitator. What Norquist did for taxes, Jonathan Bydlak wants to repeat with a promise to restrict government spending.

  • Year-End Stock Forecasts: Still a Guessing Game

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    As the end of 2012 draws near, investment strategists, one after another, have been issuing their annual prognostications for the stock market. This is always a rather high-risk activity, even though...

  • GOP Regains High Ground with Cliff Counteroffer

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    he House Republicans regained some of the high ground on Monday – in a burst of bipartisanship -- by embracing the framework of the president’s own fiscal reform guru, Democrat Erskine Bowles.

  • If You Can't Get a Job, You May Have Been 'Cliffed'

    By Alllison Linn, CNBC

    The job market has slowly been improving, but anyone who has looked for a job lately knows that it's still far from easy to land a position. Economists say there's a good reason for that: Employers...

  • Dumping the Mortgage Tax Break Can Cost, Not Give

    By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

    The mortgage interest deduction, considered by many to be the sacred cow of tax breaks, has joined the list of possible items on the chopping block in the growing debate between President Obama and...