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Budget Battles

  • G.I. Blues: Petraeus, Budget Cuts, Troop Withdrawal

    By Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post

    These are tough times for the Army. The service is facing big budget cuts and hard questions about its future role in a Pentagon defense strategy that emphasizes air and naval power over ground...

  • Krugman's 'Twinkie' Defense of Taxing the Rich

    By Liz Peek

    Some people miss the 1950s because of the era’s simple pleasures like Twinkies and Howdy Doody. Paul Krugman misses the decade’s high tax rates on the rich. In a recent column, he harks back to the...

  • Obama and Business: A Second Chance to Get It Right

    By Eric Pianin

    President Obama now has another four years to fully restore the economy and a chance to correct a fundamental weakness in his administration—it’s strained relationship with the business community...

  • Fiscal Cliff War Games: Who Plays, Who Wins?

    By Reuters

    President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress hope to start serious negotiations after this week's Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday on how to avoid the "fiscal cliff," which has politicians and...

  • Is the Coming Debt Bomb Explosion a Real Threat?

    By Suzy Khimm, The Washington Post

    Add NASDAQ’s Robert Greifeld to the list of the CEOs who believe that the growing federal deficit is an existential threat to the country. At the Brookings Institute on Monday, Greifeld laid out a...