The Treasury Department announced that it would sell the last of its shares of American International Group stock on Monday, a move that “close[s] the books on the government’s biggest bailout during the 2008 financial crisis,” according to the AP. Aggregate proceeds to Treasury from the latest offering are expected...
Pick your metaphor: coal-stuffed stocking, Mr. Grinch, nice-and-naughty list. Lawmakers are once again threatening to stay in session as long as it takes during the holiday season. In a message to House members Thursday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA., warned members that they would not be going home for...
According to First Read, everything out there suggests that Washington isn’t going off the cliff. The Washington Post reports that Republican centrists and even some conservatives are calling on House Speaker Boehner “to concede on rates now, while he still has some leverage to demand something in return.” And the...
This week Democrats adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk Republicans to the edge of the fiscal cliff on a belief that mounting pressure from within the GOP will force conservatives to fold on tax hikes. And so far, each passing day seems to add another Republican voice to the...
If Congress and the White House fail to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff, 53% of people surveyed by a Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll say that Republicans would be more at fault.
One of the reasons why Boehner appears safer than ever before is that his whole leadership team (Eric Cantor/Kevin McCarthy/Paul Ryan) seems to be all on board. That’s a difference from 2011.
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