Dec 05 Watch Obama Rejects Future Debt Ceiling Limits as Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Point Obama Rejects Future Debt Ceiling Limits as Fiscal Cliff Negotiation Point… Continue watching
Dec 05 Judy's Notebook: Why Gridlock Isn't Going Away I escaped from Washington for about a week and a half after Thanksgiving, grateful for a change of scenery after the exciting but long election season. Before I left, President Obama and congressional Republicans were edging toward the "fiscal cliff,"… Continue reading
Dec 05 Obama Takes Fiscal Plan to Business Leaders The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit on Tuesday. The year's tree is a 65-foot spruce from the White River National Forest in Colorado. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The "fiscal cliff" will remain an outside game Wednesday,… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch Obama Says No Deal If Fiscal Plan Doesn't Include Tax Rate Increase on the Rich Obama Says No Deal Without Tax Rate Increase on the Rich… Continue watching
Dec 04 In His Final Days, LBJ Agonized Over His Legacy Lyndon Johnson, shown in this August 1972 photo from the LBJ Presidential Library. It is 4:46 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1973, and Lyndon Johnson speaks to Richard Nixon for the last time ever. Nixon calls LBJ at the Ranch to… Continue reading
Dec 04 White House Dismisses GOP Plan on Fiscal Cliff President Obama. File photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Four days after having its initial offer to avert the year-end fiscal cliff rejected by House Republicans, the Obama administration got to return the favor Monday when GOP lawmakers put… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch White House, House Republicans Face Off Over Competing Deficit Reduction Plans White House, House Republicans Face Off Over Competing Deficit Reduction Plans… Continue watching
Dec 03 House Republicans Submit 'Fiscal Cliff' Counter Proposal In the latest move in negotiations toward avoiding what has been termed the "fiscal cliff," Republicans, in a letter to President Obama, rejected a request to sign off on legislation that would generate $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue as… Continue reading
Dec 03 Ask Larry: How Do I Get More Social Security from My Ex? By Paul Solman Outliving your ex-spouse is one way to get a larger Social Security payment. Photo by Noah Clayton via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his… Continue reading
Dec 03 Ask Larry: How Do I Get More Social Security from My Ex? Outliving your ex-spouse is one way to get a larger Social Security payment. Photo by Noah Clayton via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his… Continue reading