Debt Ceiling
  • Twas the Night Before 'Cliffness'

    ‘Twas the night before Cliffness and all through the HouseThey pined for a deal while the rest of us grousedThe wealthy were moving their money aroundTo Islands and places where sultans abound

  • Fiscal Cliff Cuts Will Diminish Obama’s Second Term

    By Peter Wallsten and Zachary A Goldfarb, The Washington Post

    Even if President Obama succeeds in getting Republicans to agree to tax hikes on the wealthy as part of a “fiscal cliff” deal, the country’s grim budget realities will still cast a long shadow —...

  • Boehner to Obama: I Need An Offer We Can’t Refuse

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    House Speaker John Boehner laid down a major condition Friday in his talks with President Obama about the fiscal cliff: Make me an offer that can pass both chambers of Congress.

  • Why Obama Can’t Bring Back the 90s Economic Boom

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    When selling his tax hike to the public, President Obama often advertises the economic gravy train that chugged through the Clinton era as proof that higher taxes won’t derail growth. But affluence...

  • Clinton’s Spending Cuts—Not His Tax Hikes—Worked

    Seems like everywhere we look, we see rising nostalgia for the Clinton Era. Perhaps that’s nowhere more evident than in the sudden burst of popular support for Hillary Clinton, who will step down as...