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Greenspan says market reaction key to federal budget cuts' effect
WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the stock market reaction to the large federal budget cuts slated for March 1 will determine how much they affect economic growth. The $85 billion in cuts this fiscal year, part of a...
Tags: Politics, G20, U.S. Congress, CNBC (tv network), Budgets and Budgeting
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The Democrats' sequester proposals: You can't be serious
Members of Congress left Washington on Friday for their annual Presidents Day state (or district) work period, planning to resume toward the end of the month. The break means Congress can't do anything about the looming sequester -- roughly $85 billion in...
Tags: John Boehner, Politics, U.S. Congress, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
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McManus: Obama's less-is-more agenda
President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, the first of his second term, won't be long remembered. It didn't offer much in the way of new ideas. It was short on memorable lines — except, perhaps, his demand for congressional action on gun...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Immigration, Personal Weapon Control, Unions
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2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Politics, Globalization, IBM, Wars and Interventions, Elections
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In L.A., it was a three-column day
You know you live in a wild news town when a massive manhunt for an ex-cop leads to a dramatic shootout and inferno on a snow-covered mountain, the mayor pitches a tax increase that's beginning to look like attempted extortion, and the rebuked local...Tags: Politics, Elections, Benedict XVI, Budgets and Budgeting, Local Elections
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Yaroslavsky calls mayoral candidates' budget comments 'oblivious'
L.A. NOWVeteran Los Angeles politician Zev Yaroslavsky weighed in forcefully this week on the Los Angeles mayor's race, criticizing the field of candidates for failing to address the city’s ongoing fiscal crisis.... -
Obama previews State of the Union address, challenges GOP on sequester
LANSDOWNE, Va. -- President Obama previewed his State of the Union speech themes during a pep talk to House Democrats on Thursday, while framing the fiscal battles with Congress in familiar terms as he called for an end to "governance by crisis."...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Politics, Parties and Movements, Elections, Fiscal Cliff
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Mayoral candidates making budget statements, but nothing adds up
You're six months behind on the mortgage. Your credit cards are maxed out. Your small business is treading water. Meanwhile, a tree has fallen on the roof of the office, the parking lot is full of potholes, and you've promised raises to employees, along...
Tags: Jan Perry, Politics, Elections, Arts, Public Employees
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Mayor candidates slash rivals for "irresponsible" bankruptcy claim
L.A. NOWTwo City Hall veterans leading the L.A. mayor’s race pushed back against criticism of city finances during a debate, arguing that they had made progress in pulling the city back from the brink of insolvency.... -
U.S. trade picture brightened at end of 2012
In an encouraging sign for the American economy, the U.S. trade deficit fell sharply in December as exports grew at a solid pace while imports of oil and many other goods shrank from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The big drop...
Tags: Politics, Petroleum Industry, Trade Balance, Imports, Labor Markets
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Beutner hears no 'answer' to budget deficit from mayoral candidates
L.A. NOWAt a forum in the San Fernando Valley, the top five candidates for L.A. mayor were repeatedly pressed for specifics on that point by Austin Beutner, who served as first deputy mayor until mid-2011.... -
McManus: Tax reform that hits home
Would you support a tax reform measure that could help reduce the federal deficit, remove a needless distortion in the economy and make the system fairer? Me too, which is why I'm taking aim at a sacred cow: the home mortgage interest deduction. That'...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Real Estate Buyers, Toronto (Canada), Realty
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