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IMF lowers global growth forecast, warns of risks to economic recovery
WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year from projections made three months ago, and warned policymakers that they could not relax their efforts as risks to the recovery remain....
Tags: Politics, International Monetary Fund, International Organizations, Weather Reports, Weather
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Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit...
Tags: Republican Party, Consumer Confidence, Interior Policy, John Boehner, Social Security
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Does Obama have a good revenue plan?
Yes There is no perfect federal budget plan. It doesn't exist. Any combination of cuts and tax hikes that President Obama puts forth will find opposition on some front. This year's budget needs to address the skyrocketing debt while limiting the...Tags: Barack Obama
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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: Fiction, AMC (tv network), Culture, John Boehner, Lake Worth
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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: Consumers, Prices, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Citigroup Incorporated, Vehicles
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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, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, Barack Obama
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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: Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Chuck Grassley
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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: Republican Party, Arne Duncan, Career and Workplace, Tea Party Movement, Layoffs and Downsizing
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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, Budget Control Act of 2011, Government Debt
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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: Florida Gaming Corporation, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Entertainment, Sports
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In the absence of a budget deal,it's off to Armageddon we go
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 2.2...
Tags: Republican Party, Illegal Immigrants, Culture, Government, Elections
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Sequestration? Not Scary. Try Fiscal Death Match
The Hartford CourantI'm trying really hard to get all worked up over sequestration, but it ain't taking. Congress has been no help. They called it a weekend on Thursday and went home the day before the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts was scheduled to begin....Tags: Republican Party, Academy Awards, Prada, Anne Hathaway, Eric Cantor
Apr 16, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| 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
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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