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  • 6 Ways to Raise Money-Smart Kids

    By Kentin Waits, Money Talks News

    In a world filled with financial pitfalls, working to create positive and empowering associations with money early can help set children up for a lifetime of better choices, less stress, and more...

  • Three Budget Games at the $3.6 Trillion Table

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Federal spending should exceed $3.6 trillion next year—and Democrats and Repu blicans are ready for a budget fight that will likely go down to the penny. Congress is returning after having voted last...

  • Debt ceiling

    5 Facts You Should Know about the National Debt

    By Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center

    With the Republican-led House engaged in a stare-down with Senate Democrats and President Obama over raising the federal debt limit , it seems an opportune time to dig into the actual numbers...

  • The Senate Tries to Break the Shutdown Stalemate

    By Eric Pianin

    With House Republicans seemingly spinning their wheels on ideas for ending the government shutdown and avoiding a first-ever default, Senate Democrats and a few Republicans declared on Tuesday that...

  • Debt-Ceiling Danger Zone Threatens U.S.

    By Eric Pianin

    Take a deep breath: The latest doomsday scenarios for what might happen if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling later this fall are now out. Sometime between Oct.18 and Nov. 15, the Treasury will...

  • Will the Super Committee Kill the Bull Market?

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Investors are once again starting to worry about the political risks that could derail the rally.

  • Super Committee War Scheme

    By Lori Montgomery Wp, The Washington Post

    The congressional “supercommittee” is looking to count as budget savings as much as $700 billion that the nation no longer plans to spend on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next decade, an...

  • GOP Leader Says Deficit Deal Likely

    By Andrew Taylor

    The No. 2 Republican in the House said Monday he's still confident that a bipartisan deficit "supercommittee" will be able to reach agreement even though there's little more than a week to go before...

  • Super Committee Almost out of Time

    By Lori Montgomery Wp, The Washington Post

    With just 10 days left before a Thanksgiving deadline, members of the congressional “supercommittee” appear increasingly pessimistic about the odds of forging a debt-reduction deal, despite a new...

  • 'Supercommittee' Hits Rough Patch

    By Andrew Taylor

    Even as a recent good-faith swap of offers showed a narrowing of differences over taxes, a special deficit-cutting "supercommittee" seems to have hit a major snag just two weeks before its deadline...