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Budget Battles

  • No Matter Who Wins, Health Care Rationing Is Coming

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Medicare has moved to the center of this year’s presidential campaign for a single overriding reason: shrinking the nation’s long-term government deficit demands dealing with health care costs.

  • Why Ryan Wants to Dump Fannie and Freddie

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Medicare isn’t the only major federal program targeted for a dramatic revamp by GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan—who also wants to severe the government’s relationship with the troubled...

  • Hedge Fund Managers Bet on Ryan

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Some of the nation’s top hedge fund billionaires, including many of the same financiers who are playing a major behind-the-scenes role bankrolling Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney,...

  • Paul Ryan’s Turbo Charged Climb Up the GOP Ladder

    By Elaine S. Povich, The Fiscal Times

    Rep. Paul Ryan, the youthful GOP vice presidential candidate whose deficit-cutting ideas are likely to reshape the presidential debates, learned politics and policy under the sway of a long string of...

  • Romney vs. Obama: A Clearer Choice after Ryan

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Mitt Romney had a reputation as the head of Bain Capital for seeking to reduce the private equity firm’s risk and maximizing its reward. But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee took a...