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Hayes: Fiscal cliff was more of a ‘fiscal curb’
Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes opened the show with a segment titled “Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff.” In it, he talked about the fact that the fiscal cliff was a completely made-up crisis, political brinksmanship that was less a cliff than what he called…
Language gurus add ‘fiscal cliff’ to annual ‘List of Words to be Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness’
Language gurus at a Michigan college doubled down on the fiscal cliff Monday in their year-end bucket list of trending words and phrases that ought to be kicked down the road in 2013. Lake Superior State University’s 38th annual “List of Words to be Banished from the Queen’s English for…
President Obama says fiscal cliff deal is ‘within sight’
President Barack Obama made a statement regarding the nearing “fiscal cliff,” saying that a deal is “within sight.” Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Dec. 31. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Stocks drop as fiscal cliff deadline looms
US stocks opened lower on the last day of the year Monday as Washington politicians appeared still far from a deal hours before the deadline to avoid the economy-crunching fiscal cliff. Five minutes into trade the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 33.18 points (0.26 percent) at 12,904.93. The broad-market…
LIVE: Obama discusses fiscal cliff
President Obama is scheduled to discuss fiscal cliff negotiations at 5:45 p.m. Watch the video live, via NBC, below. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [Image via AFP]…
Watch live: Reid discusses fiscal cliff
Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Dec. 27. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Oil prices fall on ‘fiscal cliff’ concerns
Crude oil prices dropped Thursday in thin trading and on uncertainty about whether a deal to avert the US “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and spending cuts could be reached by a year-end deadline, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in February, shed 12 cents…
Wall Street stocks up after ‘fiscal cliff’ talks resume
US stocks opened slightly higher Wednesday, as President Barack Obama headed back to Washington to try to secure a year-end ‘fiscal cliff’ deal with Republican lawmakers. In roughly the first 15 minutes of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 22.59 points (0.17 percent) at 13,161.67. The broad-market S&P…
Gloomy predictions as Washington approaches the ‘fiscal cliff’
The New Year may be more than a week off, but realistically Congress and the White House have less than that as the clock ticks toward the “fiscal cliff” with its automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts that could throw an already-weakened economy into a tailspin. On the Sunday……
Stocks down amid fiscal cliff worries
US stocks closed lower Thursday under a cloud of fiscal cliff concerns that overshadowed a batch of somewhat positive economic data on jobs, retail sales and inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 74.73 points (0.56 percent) to 13,170.72. The broad-market S&P 500 retreated 9.03 (0.63 percent) to 1,419.45, after…
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