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  • 6 Ways to Raise Money-Smart Kids

    By Kentin Waits, Money Talks News

    In a world filled with financial pitfalls, working to create positive and empowering associations with money early can help set children up for a lifetime of better choices, less stress, and more...

  • Three Budget Games at the $3.6 Trillion Table

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Federal spending should exceed $3.6 trillion next year—and Democrats and Repu blicans are ready for a budget fight that will likely go down to the penny. Congress is returning after having voted last...

  • Debt ceiling

    5 Facts You Should Know about the National Debt

    By Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center

    With the Republican-led House engaged in a stare-down with Senate Democrats and President Obama over raising the federal debt limit , it seems an opportune time to dig into the actual numbers...

  • The Senate Tries to Break the Shutdown Stalemate

    By Eric Pianin

    With House Republicans seemingly spinning their wheels on ideas for ending the government shutdown and avoiding a first-ever default, Senate Democrats and a few Republicans declared on Tuesday that...

  • Debt-Ceiling Danger Zone Threatens U.S.

    By Eric Pianin

    Take a deep breath: The latest doomsday scenarios for what might happen if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling later this fall are now out. Sometime between Oct.18 and Nov. 15, the Treasury will...

  • How Obama Failed to Clinch the Debt Deal

    By Peter Wallsten and Lori Montgomery Wp and Scott Wilson, The Washington Post

    Did Obama let a "grand bargain" on debt reduction slip through his fingers? This special report from the Washington Post tells an intriguing story of a bipartisan deal undermined by a politics and...

  • The Two Issues that Can Bring Down the Economy

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    The term “crisis” is frequently overused in Washington, never more so than in budget debates. The problem is that a real crisis requires a hard deadline by which time something must happen or...

  • Angry Voters to Obama: Stop the Ticking Debt Bomb

    By Liz Peek

    Democrats have had a fun month watching Republicans blow themselves to smithereens. The Oval Office must have erupted in high-fives after Newt Gingrich took South Carolina . For President Obama,...

  • The Debt Debacle: Why Alan Simpson Is Mad as Hell

    By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal Times

    The failure of the Super Committee, has former Sen. Alan Simpson fuming. Simpson – who along with Erskine Bowles authored an ambitious deficit-reduction plan largely ignored by President Obama and...

  • Super Committee Failure Could Pave Way to Deal

    By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and FELICIA SONMEZ, The Washington Post

    Will the “supercommittee” turn out to be a useful failure? Two days after its death, this idea is the committee’s last chance to matter. There is hope that its debacle could pave the way for some...