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Budget Battles

  • 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...

  • Pardon Me, Mr. President!

    By Erin Lindsay, White House

    Turkeys have been carving out a special place in American history since 1963. That's when John F. Kennedy became the first U.S. President to almost "pardon" a turkey at the White House -- a tradition...

  • Norquist: Self-Appointed No-Tax Czar Loses Ground

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    As lawmakers negotiate to prevent a combined $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts from kicking in beginning in January 2013 – and as the ‘R’ word (revenue) is called inevitable, people are now...