President

Budget Battles

  • Will Solyndra Taint Obama’s Clean Energy Record?

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    A new report shows the U.S. did better than average among advanced industrial countries in promoting renewable energy over the past decade. But it still lags in achieving the goals set 20 years ago...

  • Austerity Takes 20 Percent Out of Nobel Prize

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    With Europe’s economy on rocky terrain, even the folks at the Nobel Foundation in Sweden are cutting back on the big bucks for their most coveted prizes. The Nobel Foundation said Monday the money...

  • Romney’s ‘Jobs Plan’ Gets Hammered by Economists

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    In a major preview of Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s economic policies, his advisers said last week that the candidate’s top priority once in office would be to “make it profitable to invest in...

  • Spain Gets Up to 100 Billion Euros for Its Banks

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Saturday to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to shore up its teetering banks and Madrid said it would specify precisely how much it needs once...

  • Occupy Wall Street Struggles for Survival

    By CHRIS FRANCESCANI, Reuters

    More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coining the phrase "We are the 99 percent," the movement's survival and continued relevance...