Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…
Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of Governor Jerry Brown’s press conference Q&A on the 2013-2014 California state budget on Jan. 10, 2013:
ANALYSIS: Earlier this week, the White House proposed cutting Social Security spending by adjusting how the government calculates cost-of-living increases for seniors. In an effort to strike a…
President Barack Obama spoke to Republican House Speaker John Boehner again last night and presented a counter-offer to avert the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff refers to the…
Citing the slow pace of jobs growth, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today announced that interest rates will be kept at a historic low until the unemployment rate…
Edited by Jenny Jiang Transcript of remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at a press briefing on Dec. 12, 2012:
Nearly 62 million seniors and disabled Americans will receive a 1.7% increase in their Social Security benefits next year but the cost-of-living adjustment may not keep up with…
Edited by Jenny Jiang Transcript of remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Sept. 13, 2012:
The latest analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that the ‘fiscal cliff’ – the combination of steep budget cuts and expiring tax breaks set to take…
Scalpers operating in the so-called “gray market” are profiteering from recent drug shortages by amassing medicines – including cancer drugs – in high demand and then re-selling them…
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