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IN THE NEWS: Obama tells GOP balanced budget is not his priority … Senate moves on government funding bill … Dems unveil budget … Ted Kennedy Jr. comes out, but for what job? ... New pope from ArgentinaTHE … More » House Aide on Obama: ‘He’s Using Us as Props’: The Edge -- Brought to you by CIT
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IN THE NEWS: Obama tells GOP balanced budget is not his priority … Senate moves on government funding bill … Dems unveil budget … Ted Kennedy Jr. comes out, but for what job? ... New pope from ArgentinaTHE … More » House Aide on Obama: ‘He’s Using Us as Props’
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WHAT'S NEWSPres. Obama pushed Senate Dems to "support a grand bargain" that would "shrink the deficit, trim entitlements, raise revenue and eliminate" sequestration over lunch at the Capitol on Tuesday. … More » Obama Pushes Senate Dems to Support a Grand Bargain; McConnell Releases His First TV Ad
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For most of his first term, President Obama successfully sold a line to the public that economists will tell you is, at least in part, intellectual snake oil. He managed to blame our historically slow … More » It’s Obama’s Economy—at Last
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than two months into his second term, President Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped and Americans blame him and his fellow Democrats almost as much as his Republican … More » Election bump over, Obama approval drops to 43 percent: Reuters/IPSOS poll
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, one of the world's leading bond fund managers, has reversed his once-bearish stance on government debt, saying he has bought "more long-term Treasuries in the … More » Exclusive: DoubleLine's Gundlach shifts gears, now buys U.S. bonds
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IN THE NEWS: Three-pack of Obama nominees: EPA, Energy, OMB ... Administration: sequester already impacting air travel ... House looking to reinstate some defense cuts ... First Lady has advice on dog … More » Obama Picks a Fight—and He’ll Get One
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Three budget crises ago, in early 2011, Republicans and President Barack Obama faced off over raising the debt ceiling — and Alison Brown saw the writing on the wall. More » US economy hamstrung by Washington's brinksmanship
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This is why Paul Volcker is a legend: When he became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1979, he inherited a catastrophe. Half of the central bank’s job is to ensure stable prices, but inflation … More » Does Ben Bernanke Care Too Much About Jobs?
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In just over two years in Congress, Republican Scott Rigell of Virginia has piqued conservatives by voting to raise the debt ceiling, disavowing an anti-tax pledge, and partnering with Democrats on gun … More » Republican Congressman Faces Tea Party Wrath for Flying Air Force One
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Persistently high unemployment. A sluggish economy. Debt. Deficit. Obesity. Fundamental disputes over guns, immigration and the climate. A to-do list that would exhaust even the most … More » Column: Our collective obsession with the trivial
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better job getting uninsured people covered, … More » States' choices set up national health experiment
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Romney, Obama in battle for working-class whitesPresident Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate — white, working-class … More »Romney, Obama in battle for working-class whites
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate — white, working-class voters.
Race may be down to a handful of unknownsFlush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to open a new front in the White House race by challenging President Barack Obama in upper Midwest states where he might not have … More »Race may be down to a handful of unknowns
Flush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to open a new front in the White House race by challenging President Barack Obama in upper Midwest states where he might not have dug in otherwise. Obama is intensifying his efforts to cast his Republican rival as out of touch, which he's already been working pretty hard at doing.
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