Members of Congress are about to flee Capitol Hill, and they'll be gone until Nov. 13, one week after Election Day. As they shift to full-time campaigning, lawmakers are leaving behind many questions ...

Timeframe: Now through mid-to-late December, according to NBC News' First Read, which insists that Washington always waits till right before deadline. What to expect: Campaign-style speeches, floating ...

After President Obama said a deal was "within sight," a tax agreement was evolving in the Senate — but the House acknowledged it would not vote on fiscal measures before the midnight deadline. America ...

NEW YORK — Two key senators told the financial community on Tuesday that the industry's engagement is critical if the country is to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a series of automatic tax hikes and ...

As we've heard, there's a lot of political energy going into the fiscal cliff negotiations in the U.S. at the moment. Since all of our economies are linked in a global network, we thought we'd see how ...

You can’t turn on the television or open a magazine these days without hearing or seeing the term fiscal cliff. The media is awash with reports of President Obama and Speaker John Boehner’s ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. This publication is now archived. The "fiscal cliff" is a term used to describe a bundle of momentous U.S. federal tax increases and ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. The reason for ...

{mosads}During his two terms, former-President Clinton reduced federal spending from about 22 percent of GDP to about 18 percent of GDP. Clinton, and the Republican Congress, agreed on a number of ...

Arianne Lotti is the Assistant Policy Director for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. She explains what happened to the proposed 2012 Farm Bill during the Fiscal Cliff negotiations late ...

Adam Patti is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of IndexIQ, a New York-based ETF issuer behind several of the most innovative ETF products to hit the market in recent years. He recently took ...

— -- NEW YORK -- Stocks mostly headed higher Wednesday with new data providing hope to beleaguered U.S. homeowners and the housing industry as well. Construction of new homes and apartments rose ...