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Wall Street shrugs off sequester
The drumbeat for weeks has been that $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester would be so horrendous for the economy that lawmakers in Washington would be forced to compromise by the March 1 deadline. When no deal was...Tags: Finance, Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance, T. Rowe Price, Stock Market
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Rob Bishop, Barack Obama, Georgetown, Politics
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How to close our National Schmoozing Deficit
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that President Obama and most leading members of Congress know what a solution to the fiscal crisis looks like; they just can’t get there from here because they don’t trust one another much. Obama is trying to...Tags: U.S. Congress, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, Aspen Institute
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Area experts offer tips for tax time
Year after year, the top mistake Bonnie Lewis said she sees when clients need to correct their self-prepared tax returns is mathematical errors. “Even with something like TurboTax, when you’re plugging in information, the results are only as...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Credit and Debt, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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Politicians could use lesson in today's popular culture
We identify with popular culture more easily than we identify with politics, that's why pop culture is so popular, and a lot more interesting than government affairs. Hence the reason Barack Obama's speech last week took a backseat to his mixed Star Wars/...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Congress, The Wall Street Journal, Fiction, Barack Obama
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Dow hits record, erasing Great Recession losses
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is back. Five and a half years after the start of a frightening drop that erased $11 trillion from stock portfolios and made investors despair of ever getting their money back, the Dow Jones industrial average...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke, Stock Market, Prices, World War II (1939-1945)
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Sequestration is a political game that could cause real pain [Editorial]
After bumping our heads on the debt ceiling, then teetering on the fiscal cliff, we are now threatened with something called sequestration. Had anyone even heard that word before a few months ago? Can anyone define it? Around these parts, it's all too...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Politics, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Budget Control Act of 2011
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IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's automatic budget cuts mean there will be less financial incentive to turn in tax cheats. In a notice on its website, the Internal Revenue Service said it would pay 8.7% less to informants who blow the whistle on...
Tags: Government Debt, Chuck Grassley, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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Sequester, held in contempt
WASHINGTON -- I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. "Sequester" is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well. I hate the way the sequester diverts attention from issues that...
Tags: Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Politics, Air Transportation Delays, Bashar Assad
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Is the sequestration a true crisis?
Yes This has been an embarrassing year for the nation's leaders. After barely forming a deal on the Fiscal Cliff in January they have months later failed to compromise on billions of dollars in budget cuts. Americans should have little faith in...Tags: U.S. Congress, Government Debt, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Pari-mutuel challenges: Economy, Seminoles -- and each other
When slot machines began spinning at South Florida pari-mutuels back in 2006, some expected gobs of cash to roll in. And while the casinos are turning over healthy amounts to the state ($143 million in slot taxes last fiscal year), all agree that the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Entertainment, Budget Control Act of 2011, Mardi Gras, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Some sectors of Florida economy boom -- but others still languish
TALLAHASSEE -- It was a simple campaign mantra and the yardstick by which Gov. Rick Scott will be judged when he goes back before voters: 700,000 jobs in seven years. At the midpoint of his first term, the Republican political neophyte hasn't shied...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Labor Markets, Chris Smith (New Jersey Politician), Career and Workplace, St. Thomas University
Mar 8, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Mar 6, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 5, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 5, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 5, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 4, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Mar 4, 2013
|Story| SFL
Dec 23, 2012
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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