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    Bernanke: Fed Was 'Too Optimistic' About Recovery

    Jun 20, 2012 10:03 PM EDT

    en the so-called fiscal cliff hits. Hopefully -- whether it's a coincidence, I don't know, but the positive thing from their point is that if they need to take more action, then at least it will no longer be an election issue. JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Greg Ip ...

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    CBO Director Cautiously Optimistic About U.S. Outlook

    Jun 14, 2012 01:15 PM EDT

    ... projection shows a drastic shift in long-term projection based on the ability of Congress to successfully navigate its way around the edges of a fiscal cliff. Under the best-case scenario, the government's debt level would gradually decline over the next 25 years, eventually reaching a level just ...

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    Shields and Brooks on Eurozone Jitters, Lessons of Wisconsin Recall

    Jun 08, 2012 10:28 PM EDT

    ... and hire, you have got Europe really maybe on the verge of a cataclysm. As we heard earlier in the program, you have got the fiscal cliff. You have the Chinese slowdown, the Indian slowdown. There's many, many reasons to pull back. And you can stimulate if people are ...

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    How Vulnerable Is U.S. Over Europe's Economic Troubles?

    Jun 08, 2012 10:03 PM EDT

    ... continue, how much do you hear that affecting businesses, the people you talk to? NARIMAN BEHRAVESH: Well, clearly, they're very worried about so-called fiscal cliff at the end of this year. But, that said, I think our view is that nobody in Washington wants to be blamed for ...

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    Shields, Brooks on Economic Picture, Cyber Attacks, Trump's Role for Romney

    Jun 01, 2012 10:18 PM EDT

    ... Europe, which is in a stage of, I think, slow collapse. Then you have got China and India growth slowing. And then you have got fiscal cliff in December. So you have got just uncertainty piling on uncertainty, government introducing uncertainty even more than we have already got. And so ...

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    Presidential Campaigns Pause to Honor Veterans on Memorial Day

    May 28, 2012 01:57 PM EDT

    ... yes, that would be a very bad outcome," she said. "But the second thing they said is that the alternative, if you filled that entire fiscal cliff and cushioned it, and you just dug the debt deeper, the debt hole that much deeper, that would also be a terrible outcome ...

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    Brooks, Marcus on Coming Economic 'Chaos,' New Recession Fears, Bain Debate

    May 25, 2012 10:35 PM EDT

    ... send, because, yes, that would be a very bad outcome. But the second thing they said is that the alternative, if you filled that entire fiscal cliff and cushioned it, and you just dug the debt deeper, the debt hole that much deeper, that would also be a terrible outcome ...

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    Eurozone's Possible 'Lehman Moment': What it Means for U.S.

    May 24, 2012 10:15 PM EDT

    nd you have to try to balance these things. I actually think we have a reasonable balance at the moment if we don't jump off the fiscal cliff, but we don't have a very sensible tax system. We don't have a good growth strategy. We're missing ...

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    Stockton, California: the Most Miserable City?

    Mar 16, 2012 09:25 PM EDT

    Stockton, Calif., has been plagued with financial woes since the housing crisis began. Updated 12 p.m. ET March 19 Poor Stockton. Last year*, Forbes Magazine named the California town the most miserable city in the U.S. And now Stockton is on the verge of bankruptcy -- having built more than it could pay for and...

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    With Political Polarization at All-Time High, Americans Say 'Listen to Me'

    Jun 06, 2012 10:21 PM EDT

    With Political Polarization at All-Time High, Americans Say 'Listen to Me'