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As Obama gears up for the fiscal cliff end game, David Corn is out with a timely reminder that the deal Obama struck in December 2010, trad...

Whatever alchemy goes into Moody's economist Mark Zandi's calculations, his simple declarative forecasts do have a way of framing po...

Not to deny that the House Republicans' cuts in discretionary spending will have negligible impact on the U.S.'s structural deficit,...

As it looks all but certain that Republicans will extract at least a $30 billion pound of flesh from the 2011 budget, endangering the recove...

The late great lame duck session of Congress in Nov-Dec 2011 was widely perceived to have been a season of accomplishment for the Democrats ...

A freshman GOP congressman's attempt to differentiate a government shutdown today from the shutdown in 1995 is a study in distinctions w...