In addition to the “fiscal cliff,” now Americans have to watch out for the so-called “dairy cliff.” According to CBS News, milk prices could double if Congress does not pass the new farm bill by January 1. More from GlobalPost: Milk consumption drops off massively in the US NPR explainedthe bill contains something called the Dairy Product Price […]
In addition to the “fiscal cliff,” now Americans have to watch out for the so-called “dairy cliff.” According to CBS News, milk prices could double if Congress does not pass the new farm bill by January 1. More from GlobalPost: Milk consumption drops off massively in the US NPR explainedthe bill contains something called the Dairy Product Price […]
(MintPress) – Talks of the fiscal cliff have hit a near fever pitch as the Jan. 1 deadline could produce a swath of multi-billion dollar tax increases and federal spending cuts. Although the government is unlikely to shut down, the expiration of Bush tax cuts has led to a tit-for-tat war over the terms of […]
(MintPress) – Talks of the fiscal cliff have hit a near fever pitch as the Jan. 1 deadline could produce a swath of multi-billion dollar tax increases and federal spending cuts. Although the government is unlikely to shut down, the expiration of Bush tax cuts has led to a tit-for-tat war over the terms of […]
When the world meets in the city of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the 31st Summer Olympiad in August of 2016, they will be visiting a Brazil very different from the one that existed for most of the 20th century. The old Brazil, long synonymous with financial crisis, political instability, military dictatorship and gross economic inequality, […]
When the world meets in the city of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the 31st Summer Olympiad in August of 2016, they will be visiting a Brazil very different from the one that existed for most of the 20th century. The old Brazil, long synonymous with financial crisis, political instability, military dictatorship and gross economic inequality, […]
Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end “fiscal cliff” were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. “God only knows” how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. President Barack Obama, on his way out of town himself, insisted a bargain could still be […]
Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end “fiscal cliff” were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. “God only knows” how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. President Barack Obama, on his way out of town himself, insisted a bargain could still be […]
A deadline looming, President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday in search of a compromise to avoid a year-end “fiscal cliff” of across-the-board tax increases and deep spending cuts. The development capped a day of growing urgency in which Obama returned early from a Hawaiian vacation while lawmakers […]
A deadline looming, President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday in search of a compromise to avoid a year-end “fiscal cliff” of across-the-board tax increases and deep spending cuts. The development capped a day of growing urgency in which Obama returned early from a Hawaiian vacation while lawmakers […]
It’s not so easy to spot the homeless in the Hamptons in the summer, when celebrity A-listers fly in by helicopter and Wall Street whizzes drive out in their Jaguars and Lexuses. It’s not that the homeless don’t exist in the string of famously exclusive waterfront communities on the eastern end of Long Island — […]
It’s not so easy to spot the homeless in the Hamptons in the summer, when celebrity A-listers fly in by helicopter and Wall Street whizzes drive out in their Jaguars and Lexuses. It’s not that the homeless don’t exist in the string of famously exclusive waterfront communities on the eastern end of Long Island — […]
Lawmakers are engaged in a playground game of “who goes first,” daring each political party to let the year end without resolving a Jan. 1 confluence of higher taxes and deep spending cuts that could rattle a recovering, but-still-fragile economy. President Barack Obama returns from Hawaii Thursday to this increasingly familiar deadline showdown in the […]
Lawmakers are engaged in a playground game of “who goes first,” daring each political party to let the year end without resolving a Jan. 1 confluence of higher taxes and deep spending cuts that could rattle a recovering, but-still-fragile economy. President Barack Obama returns from Hawaii Thursday to this increasingly familiar deadline showdown in the […]
