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... negotiations, the various commissions and efforts to forge a grand bargain, the approach of the fiscal cliff, and the brutal logic of the sequester. Because debt, budget, and spending issues...

..., new tax rates kicked in on higher income individuals thanks to the fiscal cliff avoidance deal. And so every couple of weeks, the government is taking in more money from paychecks...

The sequester story has now been grounded, perhaps indefinitely.You remember the sequester, that ticking time bomb that was set to explode as part of the dreaded fiscal cliff. It...

... but more generally). But it has to be said, they are often the winners when it comes to influencing the substance of federal policy. They "caved" on the fiscal cliff, for example...

... that would have been triggered by the “fiscal cliff,” Congress did pass a total of about $180 billion of annual tax increases. The result is that, by the 2014 fiscal year, the fully...

... austerity.  But I interviewed Rogoff about the fiscal cliff last fall, and he was emphatic that we should not simply slam on the brakes and cut spending drastically, immediately. In fact...

... fiscal cliff deal, which applied only to the top 1 percent, and maybe over-generalized.But then, there was this other question: As I read off some different groups, please tell me if...

... opposition that has a long record, and a contemporary one, of inveterate hostility to the social safety net.Democrats could prove willing, as they showed during the battle at the fiscal...

... over the fiscal cliff—except, of course, leaves a tax increase in place that will cost a family making $40,000 a year an extra $800 in payroll taxes. But the Dow and the S&P have hit...

... Medicare reform is the best way to go to save this program. There are a lot of things we’ve done. The fiscal cliff was not real popular, I would add. So we, Republicans, have already done...