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2012/05/28 12:05
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Spending and debt now rank as high on the worry scale as lack of jobs. And it has direct appeal to independents who could decide the election in about a half-dozen states being heavily contested by...
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2012/05/28 08:44
2012/05/28 08:44
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Today's biggest concern is the economy. That is natural because it takes money to feed ourselves, clothe ourselves, educate our children and do the things that are near and dear to our hearts. To...
2012/05/28 05:36
2012/05/28 05:36
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... it and the U.S. government doesn't want to raise it. But decades ago, Beijing defaulted on debt owed to Americans, as well as investors and governments around the world. In one case, it was...
2012/05/28 05:13
2012/05/28 05:13
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Sixteen months ago, Democrats pushed through the largest income tax increase in Illinois history, an unpopular decision that was billed as a crucial step to put state government on the road to...
2012/05/28 04:53
2012/05/28 04:53
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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both smart and accomplished individuals. That’s why it is so disappointing that neither candidate has taken a truly responsible position when it comes to the nation’s...
2012/05/27 23:02
2012/05/27 23:02
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A new two-year budget plan for San Juan Capistrano that intends to reduce the water operations deficit while increasing city reserves will be a topic of City Council discussions Tuesday and Wednesday....
2012/05/27 17:20
2012/05/27 17:20
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... More than a week after Jane Corwin outlined her plan to cut spending and prevent the United States from having its AAA credit rating downgraded (as S&P threatened yesterday if...
2012/05/27 16:34
2012/05/27 16:34
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Liberals are beginning to sound desperate. How is this for inspiring confidence: Obama promised to use only public campaign financing. He didn't. He promised no lobbyists in his administration. There...
2012/05/27 14:09
2012/05/27 14:09
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Clean-up chief José Ignacio Goirigolzarri says Bankia is unique. The debacle tells us nothing about the rest of the Spanish banking system. Let us hope so. Standard & Poor’s is not waiting to find...
2012/05/27 12:17
2012/05/27 12:17
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The U.S. debt clock is rapidly approaching $16 trillion. This year's federal deficit is in excess of $1.3 billion. These are staggering sums, mind-numbing in their sheer size. And for the 99.9 percent...
2012/05/27 11:04
2012/05/27 11:04
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The World Bank said Vietnam still has a low risk of debt distress but warned that liabilities linked to state-owned enterprises are still a main source of uncertainty. “Vietnam’s public debt is...
2012/05/27 09:54
2012/05/27 09:54
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The Howell Public Schools Board of Education is taking a big gamble as it is expected in June to pass a budget that is $3.4 million out of balance. The district will cover the deficit by draining a...
2012/05/27 09:05
2012/05/27 09:05
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The Tobyhanna Army Depot is still flush with electronics maintenance work at the moment, but proposals to cut defense and other federal spending plus the end of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could...
2012/05/27 08:43
2012/05/27 08:43
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The 2008 financial crisis was a brutal wake-up call for many, as banks abruptly shut down cards and cut debt limits at the same time companies were tossing millions out of work. About 39 percent of...
2012/05/27 03:05
2012/05/27 03:05
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Washington • Government spending and debt are emerging as a campaign tug-of-war, with Mitt Romney blaming President Barack Obama for a "prairie fire of debt" and Obama calling the charge a "cowpie of...
2012/05/27 02:29
2012/05/27 02:29
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In the early days of the Obama administration, a lot of people, including some Republicans, weren’t much bothered by the new president’s tendency to blame his predecessor for the nation’s problems....
2012/05/26 20:56
2012/05/26 20:56
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Chinese Chaos Is The Immediate Threat To The Dollar In twenty or thrity years, I expect future monetary historians looking back on this period of history to frequently misquote Ernest Hemingway: How...
2012/05/26 16:55
2012/05/26 16:55
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The Times' editorial Wednesday on the looming debt-ceiling battle in Washington prompted reader Paul Moser of Studio City to write: "You state that entitlements are behind Washington's debt problems....
2012/05/26 05:19
2012/05/26 05:19
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Commentary:If the defensive explanations offered by Joe Ricketts' supporters are to be believed, he is upset with the president for what he sees as a track record of excessive, wasteful spending that...
2012/05/26 05:06
2012/05/26 05:06
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Treasuries dropped, halting the longest rally since 1998, as European leaders sought a compromise to resolve the region’s debt crisis, crimping demand for U.S. government debt. The yield on the...