Articles About Budget
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May 20, 2013Restaurants: Americans Are Ditching the Wallet Diet
The Great Recession placed many budgets on a strict diet, but Americans are busting out their wallets and waistlines once again.
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May 14, 2013How Will Marijuana Impact Colorado’s Pocketbook?
While Mary Jane will bring the state new revenue, she cannot cure the budget gap...
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May 12, 2013Mom’s Top Gift? Money-Smart Kids
Flowers and candy are a nice treat for a few days, but mothers across the nation are concerned about their children’s long-term financial future...
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April 22, 2013Does Obama’s Retirement Tax Cap Mean Anything?
This phrase has become a mantra in the current economic and political conversation in the United States: Americans aren't saving enough for retirement.
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April 11, 2013Will Obama Finally Honor This IMF Agreement?
The United States may finally make good on an agreement it made with the IMF in 2010...
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April 08, 2013Is This Obama Budget Proposal Dead On Arrival?
In order to generate higher revenues for the federal government, President Obama's budget proposal will cap the tax-favored retirement accounts of some private-equity executives and self-employed professionals...
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April 08, 2013Obama’s Admission About the Forthcoming Budget
There has already been criticism from both sides about the budget plan that President Obama says is not his "ideal plan," but it is an attempt to offer concessions to both sides. However, it seems to have incited both sides instead of bringing them to a compromise...
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April 05, 2013Obama’s 2014 Budget Will Edit Entitlements And Push Taxes
The President will have to do something to placate Republicans if he is going to push more tax reform through. Ceding ground on entitlements would be a start...
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April 02, 2013
Is This a Fiscal Warning Both Parties Can Agree On?
Two federal budget titans, ostensibly from separate sides of the aisle, presented an eerily unified solution to America's tremendous fiscal problem...
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February 15, 2012Market Recap: Stocks Slip as Greek Bailout Decision Postponed
Here's everything you need to know about today's trading action...
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January 30, 2012Greece Derails EU Summit’s Work on Fiscal Compact, Permanent Rescue Fund
A summit in Brussels today where European leaders were meant to work on a permanent aid fund and tougher budget rules quickly devolved into a sparring match between Greece and other nations critical of Greece's half-hearted efforts to get its deficit under control...
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January 30, 2012EU Summit to Focus on Growth and Job Creation
European leaders are expected to focus mainly on growth and job creation at a summit on Monday where they are due to approve a permanent rescue fund for the euro zone and put the finishing touches on a so-called "fiscal compact" for stricter budget discipline...
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January 11, 2012New EU Fiscal Treaty Allows for Deficits in Extreme Circumstances
The latest draft of a new EU fiscal treaty will only allow euro zone countries to incur budget deficits during severe economic downturns or other exceptional events...
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January 05, 2012Obama Outlines New Defense Strategy Amid Pentagon Spending Cuts
President Obama unveiled a new defense strategy on Thursday as the result of a strategic review he initiated last summer after asking the Pentagon to begin planning for major cuts to defense spending after a decade of growth...
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December 02, 2011Sarkozy Calls for New Treaty to Unify Euro Zone
In a speech on Thursday, Sarkozy warned that, without some new "convergence" among European countries, the continent's crushing debt could destroy the euro...
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