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Shaking off the cobwebs for 2013
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsHappy New Year all. Trying to get back into the work groove after a long holiday season. For those catching up, here are links to my two most recent print columns, a whimsical look ahead at 2013 and a look......Tags: Social Security
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U.S. Auto Sales Propelled the Economy in 2012
KickingTiresAs Congress hammered out an overdue budget deal that averted the much-discussed fiscal cliff ??? but kicked the can down the street on larger reforms ??? it's important to note that auto sales played a huge role in propelling the......Tags: Passenger Cars, U.S. Congress, Nissan, Ford, Hybrid Vehicles
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MarksJarvis: Investors turn eyes to 'fiscal cliff'
America is marching toward the fiscal cliff, and investors are on alert for the consequences of plunging from the peak. Re-elected President Barack Obama and congressional leaders must decide in the next 54 days whether they are willing to ignore...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Politics, Labor Markets, Barack Obama, White House
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The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Public Finance
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In An Era of Fiscal Crisis, Malloy Has Few Places To Run
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's latest fiscal crisis roared to the forefront this week with patterns that say a lot about what we can expect to see not just this month or even in the coming year, but for the rest of Dannel P. Malloy's term as governor. The big picture...Tags: Republican Party, Health Insurance Cost, Democratic Party, Labor Markets, Barack Obama
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...
Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Joe Biden, Barack Obama
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Crisis they created catches up with Republicans
The most ironic part of the partisan fight over the "fiscal cliff" is that, if Republicans want Barack Obama to act according to Republican principles, they should encourage the president to do nothing and simply let the country — and the...Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Ronald Reagan, Democratic Party
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Call Obama's sequester bluff
WASHINGTON — For the first time since Election Day, President Barack Obama is on the defensive. That's because on March 1, automatic spending cuts ("sequestration") go into effect — $1.2 trillion over 10 years, half from domestic...
Tags: Productivity, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Apple iPad, Politics
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From Obama: Hail, Armageddon
WASHINGTON — "The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens." Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by...
Tags: Republican Party, Bill Clinton, U.S. Congress, Culture, Politics
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Chuck Hagel a petty decision by Obama
It's official. President Barack Obama has named former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., as his nominee for secretary of defense. Hence, we may be in store for the worst defense secretary nomination fight since George H.W. Bush's failed appointment of Sen. John...
Tags: Republican Party, Susan Rice, POLITICO LLC, Michele Flournoy, Politics
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Obama's lean into GOP territory
Who are these guys? Barack Obama and his agents are looking more and more like Mitt Romney and the Republicans that Team Obama maligned to win the presidential election. I'm not just talking about last week's gone-viral Oval Office photo of senior...Tags: Al Gore, Al Jazeera (tv network), Republican Party, Satellite and Cable Service, FedEx Corporation
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Inaction on 'fiscal cliff' will lead to tipping point, a disastrous thing
The nation stands about a third of a chance of avoiding a risky plunge over the fiscal cliff by year end, one of the authors of the U.S. debt-cutting Simpson-Bowles plan told an audience of about 4,000 financial advisers in Chicago tonight. Yet, with...
Tags: Republican Party, Bill Clinton, Personal Finance, Politics, Democratic Party
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