Archive for December 27th, 2012

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Focus Returns to Fiscal Cliff Negotiations

December 27, 2012

European markets reopened after the Christmas recess.  Obama is back from Hawaii, and Congress resumes fiscal cliff talks today.  There’s no hope of a “grand bargain.”  Analysts are instead looking for some kind of short-term truce to buy time in January, but so far, neither House Republicans nor the Democrats show a predisposition to compromise […] More

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