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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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