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The Timing of the Fiscal Cliff

Without a plan to avert the “fiscal cliff,” Congress realistically has two days on which it can pass a bill this year: Dec. 28 and 31. The President and the...

Business Leaders Dive Into the Fiscal Cliff Debate

If you’re already tired of talk of the “fiscal cliff” brace yourself  Several  businessfriendly deficitunfriendly groups have launched wellfunded campaigns...

The Making of a Cliffhanger

Is the term "fiscal cliff" too alarmist? The man who coined it thinks not

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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes

Some of Congress' biggest actions lately -- including the January'' fiscal cliff'' tax increase, and the March'' sequestration'' budget cuts -- began as mutually...

Entitlements' unimpeded growth is boon to seniors

[... ] partisan clashes that produced the'' fiscal cliff'' and the automatic cuts have made matters even worse, said the group's vice president, Jim Kessler. According to...

Entitlements' unimpeded growth is boon to seniors

[... ] partisan clashes that produced the'' fiscal cliff'' and the automatic cuts have made matters even worse, said the group's vice president, Jim Kessler. According to...

Column: Playing politics with crisis is inevitable

[... ] when today's lawmakers do find solutions in the midst of crisis, those accords usually are forged at the last minute and only after intense partisan wrangling, such as when the country was about to head over the so-called'' fiscal cliff ...