Elections

Budget Battles

  • Guess Who Wants to Kill Corporate Tax Reform

    By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

    On the surface, large, publicly traded, U.S. firms appear united in their desire to push for corporate tax reform. But the likelihood that large multinational firms like GE, Pfizer, and Google might...

  • Investors Worry about Election

    By STEVEN C. JOHNSON, Reuters

    Investment strategists say the contests are among the most important in recent memory: a new government will need to tackle the deficit and start containing the national debt or the United States...

  • Senate Race is No Longer a Republican Slam Dunk

    By Eric Pianin

    It once was a given the Republicans would take back control of the Senate in November, But an improving economy and several political turnabouts in Maine and Nebraska may change that outcome.

  • Santorum Takes Louisiana Primary

    By ROS KRASNY and SAMUEL P. JACOBS, Reuters

    Rick Santorum, the former Senator from PA, has won the GOP Louisiana primary, beating out his chief rival, Mitt Romney, and showing his strength in the South.

  • Santorum vs. Romney—Latest Play-by-Play Coverage

    By Eric Pianin

    it will be a long time before GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney and his campaign live down his top aide’s Etch-A-Sketch gaffe, but former senator Rick Santorum has had plenty of problems of...