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The Motley Fool August 4, 2011 Katie Spence |
Congress Cut a Deal, and These Companies Are Crying Defense companies may be facing hard cuts, but now's the time to buy. |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Crisis Averted? The Latest on the Debt Ceiling What you need to know about the mess in Washington. |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Here, You Fix the Budget By next Wednesday, a group of politicians dubbed the "supercommittee" has to come up with a plan to slash federal deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. |
Chemistry World August 9, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
US debt deal is a mixed bag for researchers It has become clear that the news is mixed for US science agencies and the researchers who depend on their funding. |
National Defense January 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Fiscal Talks Only Offer Short-Term Solutions, Ignore the Tough Problems The nation's economic future is still in limbo. The White House and congressional Republicans are seeking to avert the fiscal cliff, including the automatic spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2011 Morgan Housel |
How the Surplus Became a Deficit Tearing apart CBO's numbers. |
AFP eWire December 7, 2010 |
President Obama and GOP Tax Cuts Extension Could Extend the IRA Rollover Provision President Obama and the Republicans in Congress have forged an agreement on a two-year extension of several tax cuts. It is AFP's hope that an extension of the IRA Rollover provision will be included in the final iteration of that agreement. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 |
Two Ways to Fund Reform Separate House and Senate health-care bills cover costs differently. |
National Defense July 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Sequestration Looming: Defense Should Be Prepared for All Possible Scenarios If no further legislative action is taken before January, the Budget Control Act directs a reduction of $97 billion in discretionary federal spending for fiscal year 2013. The calculations work out to $42 billion from domestic programs and $55 billion from defense. |
The Motley Fool August 5, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Runningen & Nichols |
Obama's Budget: Something for Everyone to Hate The President's proposed 2012 spending cuts won't win him a lot of friends |
National Defense October 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
President's Half-Trillion Dollar Jobs Plan Muddies the Defense Budget Waters What one wonders though is how the new requirement to "pay for" the Jobs Bill will affect defense spending. |
BusinessWeek February 3, 2011 Lisa Lerer |
The Tea Party: Playing Chicken with Debt The White House and congressional Republicans draw lines in the sand |
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson The co-chairs of the U.S. Debt Commission explain the thinking behind their $3.8 trillion fix for America's afflicted budget. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel |
National Debt: The Race Toward $10 Trillion We're about to breach a seriously depressing milestone. |
BusinessWeek December 2, 2010 Przybyla & Faler |
Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See Neither the President's panel nor the most hawkish budget-cutters would balance the federal budget for decades to come. |
National Defense May 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
What the Latest U.S. Budget Crisis Means for the Future of Defense Even if defense survives significant 2012 budget cuts, the probability is that 2013 or 2014 will be very tough years for military budgets. |
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz |
Next Stop: Economic Armageddon? What failure to raise the debt ceiling means. |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Rich Smith |
Get Rich With Defense Stocks? Yes, Really! If Congress takes an axe to the Pentagon's budget, defense contractors might actually have cause for celebration. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Trillions and Trillions of Dollars Over the coming weeks, a congressional "supercommittee" will try to find more than $1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade. Part of their job will be -- or should be -- a dramatic overhaul to the tax code. |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Rowley & Donmoyer |
What Will Washington's Lame Ducks Do? The issues facing the returning outbound congresspeople, and what to expect. |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2011 Gary Cassady |
How to Trade Budget Cuts With the economy still in such dire straits, it is unclear exactly what effect spending cuts will have on the recovering economy. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What You Need to Know About the President's Plan to Save $4 Trillion President Barack Obama laid out a plan to slash $4 trillion from the deficit between now and 2023. Here's roughly how it'll get done. |
Salon.com April 11, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Stuck in the middle Without any clear defenders -- and plenty of detractors -- the Bush budget looks awfully vulnerable... |
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
AskMen.com Brantley Oakey |
Effortless Budget Cuts We've put together the following list of effortless budget cuts that will ask you and your lifestyle to sacrifice very little. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Sick of the Budget Deficit? Read This What really sent us over the edge. For one, there was a good round of tax cuts enacted under President Bush. And two wars. You know the story. Moreover, the economy didn't grow as fast as expected. |
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Robert Kuttner |
The Budget Mess Bush Can No Longer Ignore The U.S. economy can't grow its way out of such big deficits. |
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Laura Litvan |
Lobbyists Mobilize to Preserve Tax Breaks Nurses, farmers, defense contractors, and others are fighting to protect tax breaks and programs dear to them. |
National Defense February 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
One Fiscal Cliff Down and Three More to Go The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation the president signed Jan. 2 would increase the deficit by nearly $4 trillion over the next 10 years. It is almost certain that defense will have to surrender additional revenue, perhaps another $10 billion to $20 billion per year. |
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 |
Wanted: An Honest Budget Bad news outweighs good as President Bush prepares to announce the next federal budget. |
National Defense October 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Let's Face It: There Is No Shelter From the Fast Rising $$ Storm Defense faces a more than $50 billion reduction per year if sequestration is allowed to occur. Cuts through 2017 of 21 percent are less than the 35 percent reduction after the Cold War wound down, but sequester makes the cut totally arbitrary. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Hawk in Hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt The president wants to signal that he's serious about cutting the federal budget. Unfortunately, his plan hinges on the assumption that Americans do not know how to calculate percentages. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2010 Leila Sattary |
MPs warn science cuts will harm economy Stop spending cuts now or risk devastating British science and the economy, says a report published today by the UK government's Science and Technology Committee. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Ira Boudway |
The Rich Get Richer... and You Know the Rest Amid a heated debate over expiring tax cuts, new Census data show that income inequality is widening. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon Suffers Death by a Trillion Cuts A group advocates $1 trillion in spending reductions. |
National Defense September 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Budget Control Act of 2011 Forces Real Cuts to Defense, and Difficult Choices Enactment of the Budget Control Act of 2011 now provides specific information on the future course of defense spending. |
National Defense August 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Support for U.S. Troops Should Always Rise Above Partisan Politics Heated debate continues over the impact of $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts to the federal budget that could begin next year. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 6, 2004 Don A. Moore |
Use Deadlines for Powerful Negotiations You can use deadlines to your strategic advantage in negotiations--but so can your opponent. Here's how to make the most of time pressure. |
National Defense May 2012 Berteau & Murdock |
Defense Department Must Prepare for Deeper Budget Cuts The post-election bargaining over taxes and government spending will be intense and hard-fought. The Defense Department needs to make it clear to all the players what the real consequences for the nation's security are of ill-considered, deep cuts to a defense budget that is already on the decline. |
National Defense November 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
'Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think' Accepting the reality that the defense budget is going to come down, what must we think about? |
InternetNews October 18, 2004 Allen Bernard |
Tech Job Cuts Leap 60% Announced job cuts in the technology sector soared 60% in the third quarter to 54,701, the highest figure since the fourth quarter of 2003 (82,328). |
Global Services June 20, 2007 |
71,115 Job Cuts in May May was the second consecutive month when job cuts were more than those in the same period last year. Yet outsourcing only accounted for 300 of the over 70,000 lost jobs. |
The Motley Fool February 7, 2008 Colleen Paulson |
Downsizing and Your Portfolio Unfortunately, your portfolio gains can mean someone else's loss. |
Managed Care January 2002 |
1-Year Delay Near In Implementation Of HIPAA Rules It looks like most players in health care -- IT vendors excluded -- will get what they want if a bill delaying the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's electronic claims standards becomes law... |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The $23.7 Trillion Confusion How much are taxpayers really on the hook for? Tens of trillions less than some expect. |