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But what if that schedule is wrong? What if that third forcing issue—hitting the statutory debt limit—does not happen until sometime in the first quarter of 2013? That is increasingly likely, say the folks who watch this sort of thing.
May 27, 2012 at 18:03 | Source: The Christian Science Monitor
AFP - The United States faces a likely recession next year if Congress fails to stop scheduled spending cuts and tax hikes in January, congressional budget analysts warned Tuesday. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that if ...
May 22, 2012 at 22:05 | Source: France 24
Although Mitt Romney wants to focus on jobs and economic growth, the House GOP leadership seems determined to make the coming election a referendum on the federal budget. That's a debate at least some Democrats believe is a winner for them as ...
May 23, 2012 at 13:57 | Source: Los Angeles Times
BERLIN (Reuters) - A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens on Sunday to refrain from "playing political games" and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and ...
May 27, 2012 at 12:26 | Source: Reuters
A new government study says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession. The Congressional Budget Office report says that the economy ...
May 22, 2012 at 21:29 | Source: NewsMax.com
Federal Reserve officials in April flagged concerns over US fiscal policy and its impact on the economy, according to minutes of their last policy meeting released Wednesday. Central bank officials overall thought the economic outlook was still on a path ...
May 16, 2012 at 20:03 | Source: My Fox Boston
Words of wisdom: Vanguard chairman emeritus Jack Brennan, speaking at the investment firm's Bermuda Investor Forum yesterday at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess (Photo by Akil Simmons) Vanguard chairman emeritus Jack Brennan (Photo by Akil Simmons ...
May 18, 2012 at 11:33 | Source: the Royal Gazette
In contending that the fiscal treaty will solve our dilemma, the European Commission and European Central Bank are pissing down Ireland’s back and telling us it’s raining. The fiscal treaty will not solve Europe’s crisis. The Spanish and Irish crises ...
May 28, 2012 at 19:28 | Source: Financial Times
SAN FRANCISCO – The European Union should use the upcoming meeting of the Group of 20 to urge the United States to put in place fiscal reforms to keep it from going over a "fiscal cliff" that is looming late this year or early next year ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:45 | Source: FOXBusiness
Before we vote on Thursday, I think it would be useful for us all to reflect on exactly why the bond markets won't lend to us at present. Is it because of our structural deficit? No, of course it isn't. It's because we already owe so much that lending us ...
May 27, 2012 at 08:16 | Source: Independent