A Debt Deal Won’t Save Us

Fall Awakening

Sorry to be the pessimist, but even if Congress reopens the government and agrees on lifting the debt ceiling, we’re in for a rocky ride come the new year. Welcome to the year of the groundhog. By Daniel Gross

Published Oct. 15 2013 11:51AM EDT

The budget wars are almost over! Long live the budget wars!

On Monday night the contours of a deal to defuse the ticking fiscal bomb emerged in the Senate.

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