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A shrinking U.S. federal deficit is undermining the favorite tax-and-spending arguments of both Republicans and Democrats.
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Tony Fratto married young and says he had no experience with digital dating. Over a candle-lit steak dinner, the former spokesman for President George W. Bush got an education.
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President Barack Obama’s three-day Florida golf getaway featuring a round with Tiger Woods opened him to criticism of tone-deafness for playing when he’s at a budget impasse with Congress that threatens automatic spending cuts in less than two weeks.
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An improving jobs picture and soaring stock market are likely to ease pressure on President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans to resolve a budget standoff, even as both sides prepare for a long struggle.
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Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 bashed China as a currency manipulator and called the foreign purchase of an iconic American beer company a “shame.”
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Timothy F. Geithner, who ended his term as Treasury secretary in January, is planning to write a book about the U.S. response to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a person familiar with his plans.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will stay in his post through President Barack Obama’s inauguration as the administration negotiates with Congress to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, White House press secretary Jay Carney said today.
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President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney made competing assertions during their debate last night in Hempstead, New York. How did they square with the facts?
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President Barack Obama vowed he won’t negotiate over raising the government’s debt ceiling even as he offered to deal on a separate track with the deficit reduction demanded by Republicans.
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Timothy F. Geithner’s replacement by Jack Lew as Treasury secretary will end a period of unusually strong ties between the department and the Federal Reserve. For the Fed, the result may be less insulation from critics, yet greater influence in financial market regulation.
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