Elections

Budget Battles

  • Obama, Romney in Virtual Duel Over Foreign Policy

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    In New York City this morning, both President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney gave defining speeches, Obama at the United Nations and Romney at the Clinton Global Initiative...

  • President Obama Addresses the UN

    By President Barack Obama

    Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentleman: I would like to begin today by telling you about an American named Chris Stevens. Chris was born in a town called Grass...

  • Romney Addresses the Clinton Global Initiative

    By Mitt Romney Drinks the Kool-Aid on U.S. Start-Ups, The Fiscal Times

    If there’s one thing we’ve learned this election season, it’s that a few words from Bill Clinton can do any man a lot of good. After that introduction, I guess all I have to do is wait a day or two...

  • Pew’s Voter Survey Gives Romney a Surprising Edge

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    While perceptions of the economy and President Obama’s handling of it have improved in recent polls, the Romney campaign scored on another point highlighted in the poll: the voting public’s...

  • Romney's Misleading Attack on Social Insurance

    By Mark Thoma

    Republicans have made it very clear that if they take power in November, they intend to cut government social insurance programs. In their view, these programs sap the incentive to work and create a...