Since the re-election of President Barack Obama, I've been fielding phone calls from friends and commentators around the world who are asking about the U.S. fiscal cliff. It turns out to be ...

GOP analyst Frank Luntz says voters are unusually anxious ahead of fiscal cliff because "they know they're gonna get hurt" The NFL is stenciling "Choose Love" in the back of one of the end zones at ...

As May 31 this year came and went and Illinois lawmakers passed a roughly $55 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a $771 million budget shortfall that Chicago area ...

NEW YORK — Two key senators told the financial community on Tuesday that the industry's engagement is critical if the country is to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a series of automatic tax hikes and ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. We often talk about running the government like a business, but it is definitively not ...

The battle over the fiscal cliff so far has revolved around income taxes for the wealthy and entitlement reform. But there are many other ways the federal budget deficit could be trimmed that haven’t ...