Elections

Budget Battles

  • Obama’s Jobs Act—Not Just a Failure but a Fraud

    By Liz Peek

    If President Obama wins reelection, it will be because he has snookered the American public and outwitted the GOP. It will not be because his policies have succeeded. As he campaigns for a second...

  • If 2013 Budget Talks Fail, Top Credit Rating May Fall

    By Steven C Johnson and DANIEL BASES, Reuters

    The United States may lose its top credit rating if next year's budget talks do not produce policies that gradually decrease the country's debt, Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday. The warning...

  • Obama Trumped Romney on August Campaign Spending

    By Tw Farnam, The Washington Post

    President Obama raised more money than challenger Mitt Romney in August for the first time in three months, a sign that the Republican spending advantage in the fall could be smaller than previously...

  • GOP Lawmakers Can Swing the Vote...to Obama

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    Congress returns to a transformed landscape since the August recess and political conventions, with President Obama enjoying a bounce after the Democrats' gathering in Charlotte and Republican Mitt...

  • The Campaign Trail: No Help for the Unemployed

    By Mark Thoma

    There was something important missing from both the Democrat and Republican National Conventions -- the unemployed . We have an unemployment crisis on our hands, and nobody should be satisfied with...