Tag: Budgets and Deficits

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, left, announces that nearly $60 million in grants have been awarded to tribal communities across the nation during a news conference Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, in Anchorage, Alaska. U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, listens at right. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Agency awards $60 million in tribal housing grants

Mark Thiessen · October 6, 2014 11:39 pm

Mayor: Detroit can succeed under bankruptcy plan

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2014 11:17 pm

President Barack Obama meets with financial regulators for a discussion on the economy and to receive an update on implementation of Wall Street Reform, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama applauds financial chiefs for Dodd-Frank implementation

Joseph Lawler · October 6, 2014 6:29 pm

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GOP sharpens knives to cut political spending by labor

Sean Higgins · October 6, 2014 9:00 am

Life insurance company MetLife will challenge regulators' proposal to label it a "systemically important" financial firm and regulate it like a bank.Â (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

MetLife challenges regulators’ ‘systemically important’ label

Joseph Lawler · October 3, 2014 9:23 pm

"The IRS tells you to hang on to seven years of your personal tax information, but they can't even keep six months of employee emails. It's time to clean house at the IRS," tPaul Ryan says in the 30-second ad spot. (AP Photo)

Ryan responds to the pope on poverty

Joseph Lawler · October 3, 2014 6:10 pm

The report, a survey of experts done for a congressional committee, noted that the culture of Pentagon weapon-buying was among the things most important yet most difficult to change. (iStock Photo)

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Pentagon weapons-buying process needs a culture change: Report

Charles Hoskinson · October 3, 2014 5:30 pm

Detroit manager: Bankruptcy challenges costly

Corey Williams · October 2, 2014 9:10 pm

Bacon cheeseburgers costing more

Sean Higgins · October 2, 2014 5:31 pm

Democratic Governors Association pumps $1.5M into Crist’s campaign

David Yates · October 2, 2014 4:51 pm

Kansas governor Sam Brownback received a vote of confidence in his controversial tax cut program Thursday as the Cato Institute gave him the top rating on its annual fiscal policy report card. (AP Photo)

Sam Brownback tops fiscal ranking of governors

Joseph Lawler · October 2, 2014 1:46 pm

FILE - In this June 27, 2012 file photo, pedestrians cross a street near the Bank of Stockton in Stockton, Calif. A federal judge could rule Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, on a bankruptcy exit plan for Stockton, an inland port city in California that in 2012 became the largest city in the U.S. to file for Chapter 9 protection before Detroit filed last year. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein has scheduled a hearing in Sacramento in a trial that has lasted more than four months. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka, File)

Ruling lets bankrupt city cut pension benefits

Don Thompson · October 2, 2014 1:28 pm