Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Treasury to limit profitability of overseas shifts

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 8, 2014 4:24 pm

Chris Christie hit by state bond rating downgrade

Kelly Cohen · September 8, 2014 3:52 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., expresses his dismay at Russian Vladimir Putin leader granting asylum to American secrets leaker Edward Snowden, at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Defying the United States, Russia granted Edward Snowden temporary asylum on Thursday, allowing the National Security Agency leaker to slip out of the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for weeks in hopes of evading espionage charges back home. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer preps bill to penalize companies that inverted as far back as 1994

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2014 3:08 pm

The Obama administration will make a decision on executive action to prevent corporations from leaving the country in the "very near future," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Monday morning. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Jack Lew: Decision on executive action on taxes ‘in the very near future’

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2014 1:43 pm

Less than seven percent of UsaSpending.govÃ¢â¬â¢s information is accurate, and $600 billion is missing.

Transparency advocates worry that DATA Act is in hands of a reluctant OMB

Luke Rosiak · September 7, 2014 9:00 am

In the House, Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, has led the charge to end the bank. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

Ex-Im Bank may be saved by the bell

Susan Ferrechio · September 6, 2014 2:00 pm

Don’t expect quick action from Congress on defense spending

Charles Hoskinson · September 6, 2014 9:00 am

House Democrats quietly meeting on school funding

Kerry Lester · September 6, 2014 12:18 am

The measure would phase out Fannie and Freddie and replace them with a private insurance system with a government backstop. (iStock)

Senate bill to end Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac would save $60 billion

Joseph Lawler · September 5, 2014 8:21 pm

Competing views on IRS treatment of tea party

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 5, 2014 6:49 pm

New York health insurance rates to rise in 2015

David Klepper · September 5, 2014 5:30 pm

Detroit official: Debt plan ‘adjustments’ possible

Corey Williams · September 4, 2014 11:52 pm