Will the GOP Work With Obama, Democrats to Avoid a Fiscal Armageddon?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jul 9, 2015 The notion that Democrats, including President Obama, could ever agree to what the Republicans are proposing is, well, absurd. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sequestration

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star Feb 25, 2013 Dig deeper

Congress Rejects Own Pay Raise

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 2, 2013 By casting their ballots in favor of a deal that would avert the so-called fiscal cliff early Tuesday morning, senators overwhelmingly blocked a pay increase for themselves and members of the House that President Obama recently approved via an executive order. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Do-Nothing Congress to Get Pay Raise

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Dec 31, 2012 Looking for a job where being unproductive and ineffective won't hurt your chances of getting a raise? Try being a member of Congress! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

French Actor’s Tax Move Sparks Debate About Patriotism and Greed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 23, 2012 Gerard Depardieu’s blustery renunciation of his French citizenship for the purpose of avoiding a tax increase imposed to combat the fiscal crisis has exposed a bitter division in the French populace that includes some of its most famous citizens. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Dean Baker

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 16, 2012 “We all misjudged the risks involved,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in March 2010 of the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis. He forgot about economist Dean Baker. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Krugman: ‘America Is Not Facing a Fiscal Crisis’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 8, 2012 No, says the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who must be hoarse from repeating the same thing for the last four years: The United States is facing a jobs crisis, one that costs the savings, homes and dreams of millions of Americans and about $900 billion a year in lost productivity. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fiscal Cliff

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The Woe of Fiscal Cliff

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Nov 15, 2012 Dig deeper

Hollande Urges Germany to Reconsider Crisis Response

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 17, 2012 On the eve of a eurozone summit that will consider a unified continental budget, French President Francois Hollande said that his half of the Paris-Berlin crisis team will insist on an easing of German leader Angela Merkel's hard push for "austerity and the surrender of national powers to tighten fiscal discipline,” The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Will Greece Be Ruled by the Bankers or Its People?

By Peter Bratsis, Truthout Mar 4, 2012 The most central and constant dilemma in modern politics—whether the will of the people or that of bureaucrats and specialists should rule--is on full display in Greece. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )