The United States faces a dire and unsustainable fiscal outlook. You'd never know it from the action in Washington. Across ...

Across the state, transit agencies are warning that they are only months away from insolvency. Under nearly every scenario, ...

If you haven't already heard the phrase "fiscal cliff," get used to it. You'll be hearing a lot about it over the next six months. One of the most important but unknown facts about the federal ...

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Jon Stewart revisited the fiscal cliff of doom tonight and the differing proposals being put up by both sides on how to deal with it. Whereas Stewart found the White House’s proposal a mostly balanced ...

Alaska’s fiscal warnings have been clear for years. Volatile oil revenue, structural deficits and rising costs have put the state at what many describe as a fiscal cliff. That cliff is real. But the ...

Update: Tuesday, Jan. 1: 11:59 p.m. EST: Before leaving for Hawaii, President Obama hailed the fiscal-cliff bill, which he plans to sign. With regard to future negotiations over the nation’s budget, ...

The “Fiscal Cliff” means all income-tax payers are in for an increase and most government programs are in for massive reductions—by the 1st of next year. What if the re-elected President and the ...

As we've heard, there's a lot of political energy going into the fiscal cliff negotiations in the U.S. at the moment. Since all of our economies are linked in a global network, we thought we'd see how ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...