Elections

Budget Battles

  • Romney Plays Trump Card in Nevada

    By Sam Youngman and ROS KRASNY, Reuters

    After stumbling with remarks suggesting he was indifferent to America's poor, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney was endorsed on Thursday by one of the country's most famous wealthy...

  • Tea Party Says As Debt Rises, So Does Membership

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Despite media reports that the Tea Party is fading into oblivion, Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots says that the movement is growing – and that the true measure of “success is that we go...

  • Job Growth a Blowout: 243,000 Added

    By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

    The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, indicating last quarter's growth carried into early...

  • GOP Insiders Preparing for Obama Win?

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Just before the Florida primary on Tuesday, a wag predicted that it would be won either by the guy everyone hates or the guy no one likes. It was an easy prediction because the election was...

  • Trump Endorses Romney

    By Andy Sullivan, Reuters

    Businessman and reality-TV personality Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, setting aside for now the possibility that he might...