White House

Budget Battles

  • “Makers” Take Lion’s Share of Tax Breaks

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s impolitic comments at a fundraiser in Florida last May shed light on his attitude toward the 46 percent of the population that paid no federal income...

  • Fed: Uncertainty Raised Joblessness By Up to 2%

    By ANN SAPHIR, Reuters

    Uncertainty over the economic outlook has added between one and two percentage points to the U.S. unemployment rate since 2008, according to an estimate from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.

  • Romney Comment Derails Republican Campaign Again

    By Philip Rucker, The Washington Post

    Romney faced another distraction Monday, as Mother Jones magazine unearthed a video that it said showed the candidate speaking at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla. In the video, Romney says...

  • The Next President Will Step into Deficit Hell

    By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

    To hear the candidates tell it, the presidential election offers a dramatic choice on the economy: Vote for me, each says, if you want a robust recovery; pick my opponent, and we'll plunge back into...

  • “This is No Way to Run a Government!”–Adm. Mullen

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    s a former Secretary of Defense and CIA director who served eight of the last nine presidents, Bob Gates has navigated treacherous issues before—Soviets during the Cold War, the Taliban, South...