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June 08, 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek: Overseas Profits: When a 95% Tax Cut Doesn’t Cut It

Under current law, American companies pay a 35 percent U.S. tax on profits they earn abroad. They get credits for…

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June 05, 2012 CNBC: US Already in ‘Recession,’ Extend Tax Cuts: Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton told CNBC Tuesday that the US economy already is in a recession and urged Congress to…

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June 04, 2012 Big Changes in College Health Plans

Some colleges are dropping student health-insurance plans for the coming academic year and others are telling students to expect sharp…

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May 25, 2012 WaPo Fact Check: The facts about the growth of spending under Obama

By Glenn Kessler “I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy…

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May 23, 2012 Fortune: Even with a High Court win, Obamacare won’t work

FORTUNE — The Obama administration maintains that its Affordable Care Act is a complex construct that’s endangered if the Supreme…

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May 17, 2012 Dave Camp Urges Comprehensive Tax Overhaul

House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp nudged the Obama administration to embrace a comprehensive overhaul of the tax system…

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May 02, 2012 New study: High U.S. debt levels could mean a quarter century of weak growth

http://blog.american.com/2012/05/new-study-high-u-s-debt-levels-could-mean-a-quarter-century-of-weak-growth/ Economists Carmen Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart, and Kenneth Rogoff (from here on out referred to as R3) have a…

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May 01, 2012 Obama Fails to Stem Middle-Class Slide He Blamed on Bush

Barack Obama campaigned four years ago assailing President George W. Bush for wage losses suffered by the middle class. More…

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April 10, 2012 Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds

President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion…

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March 29, 2012 The True Cost

A tax on medical devices and equipment tucked into the 2,400-page 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the…

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