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  • Obama Deficit Vow in Speech Leaves Billions to Be Found

    President Barack Obama said the proposals in his State of the Union speech won’t increase the U.S. deficit “by a single dime.” He didn’t say they’d be free.

  • Litan: I Don’t See a Quick Path to a Grand Bargain

    Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Litan, Bloomberg Government director of research, discusses the theories behind the path to solving the fiscal cliff. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."

  • Romney or Obama Win Means No Escape From Fiscal Crisis of Debt

    Consumers, banks and businesses have been busy getting their balance sheets into better shape since the U.S. economic recovery began more than three years ago. Now, it’s the government’s turn.

  • S&P Seen Surrendering to Tea Party Costing U.S. Taxpayer

    Standard & Poor’s, the rating company that downgraded the debt of the United States to AA+ from AAA for the first time, now finds itself assailed by investors led by billionaire Warren Buffett for making a political decision that has more to do with Tea Party politics than the financial stability of the U.S.

  • Debt Deal Seen Saving U.S. Companies $60 Billion: BGOV Barometer

    A deficit-reduction package on the scale contemplated by President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress would deliver long-term benefits to U.S. corporations and their shareholders as well as to taxpayers, according to Bloomberg Government analysts.

  • Gerard, Gutierrez, Cali, Litan on U.S. Regulations

    Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, Carlos Gutierrez, vice chairman of the institutional clients group at Citigroup Inc., Leonard Cali, senior vice president of external and legislative affairs at AT&T Inc., and Robert Litan, director of research at Bloomberg Government, talk about the U.S. regulatory environment. They speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, as part of the Bloomberg/2012 Tampa Host Committee Economic Development Series. Bloomberg's Michael Riley moderates the panel. (Source: Bloomberg)

  • Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed’s Secret Loans

    Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits.

  • Americans Favor Regulations More Than Romney Bargained On

    Mitt Romney urged voters to reject President Barack Obama and his “job-killing” regulations. Obama’s victory last week shows many Americans aren’t as reflexively anti-Washington as Romney expected.

  • ‘Nervous’ Wall Street Waits for Congress to Kill Swaps Limit

    Wall Street banks , surprised that the Senate’s financial overhaul passed with language that could curtail their derivatives trading, are now hoping the rule can be killed in Congressional negotiations.

  • Self-Employed Struggle as U.S. Recovery Offers Few Opportunities

    More than 1 million self-employed Americans are no longer in business almost four years after the last recession began, as the economy constrains entrepreneurial activity and small-business job creation.

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