Europe is crumbling....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- Senior administration officials said Tuesday that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) isn't going to win if he keeps up a fight about ty...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.21.2012
WASHINGTON -- Republicans may publicly trash the idea of including new revenues in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, but they say otherwise in pr...
Posted 05.18.2012
Appearing on "Martin Bashir" Friday afternoon, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that Republican leaders' economic policy is so destructive t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday slammed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for sparking another potential sho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Apparently healed from the trauma caused by last summer's debt-ceiling showdown, House Republicans and the White House have begun an eig...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) sees the debt ceiling as an "action-forcing event" where he will insist on cuts greater than the increase, setting...
James Kwak | Posted 05.20.2012
The current privileged status of U.S. dollar debt is a recent phenomenon, and one that is by no means permanent. This is a major reason why it is important to begin reducing structural deficits during the next decade.
The New Republic | Noam Scheiber | Posted 02.13.2012
Shortly after four o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 13, 2011, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner walked down the hallway near his office...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to let the president raise the nation's debt limit by about $1.2 trillion, voting down a measure that would ha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House of Representatives turned down President Obama's request to raise the debt limit Wednesday in a largely symboli...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.19.2012
WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled House on Wednesday kicked off another session with a protest vote against raising the government's borrowing cap...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 02.29.2012
HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is delaying his request for another $1.2 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit at the request of congre...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 02.26.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says the federal government has nearly reached its borrowing limit – again. Treasury officials said...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The so-called Super Congress will attempt to hold the majority of its meetings in public, in full view of the voters and the press, the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic National Committee was not kidding when it hinted last month that fundraising would slow down from the torrid pace set du...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Deficit super committee member and Republican Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Tuesday he will oppose any Social Security benefit reductio...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.14.2011
With so many far-right Republicans having picked up House seats in the 2010 midterm, the election of 2012 could be a good year for a Democratic comeback. Good news, right?
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.11.2011
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus has released the following statement concerning the continuing and dangerous deterioration of the U.S. economy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders of the House and Senate announced their picks Wednesday for the "super Congress" deficit committee slated with findin...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.09.2011
It happened on his watch! It happened on his watch! For events so consequential, Guilt is wholly presidential, And we're here to say It happened...
Posted 10.09.2011
While the stock market has plummeted on concerns about the near-term strength of the American economy, the larger issue could be that the long-term pr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 10.09.2011
Members of Congress may be breathing more easily after negotiating an end to the protracted fight to increase the debt ceiling, but a new CNN poll fin...
Jim Worth | Posted 10.04.2011
The Tea Party held the country hostage -- and won! Despite the posturing on both sides of the aisle over what they each achieved in the budget deal, ...
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.05.2011
The bottom line for Liberals: we're on our own. It's naïve to expect help from President Obama. The economy will continue to spiral downward and Liberals will have to figure out how to save it.
Bloomberg | Posted 05.29.2012