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Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary; Rana Foroohar, Time Magazine; Jim Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute; and Matt Swift, Legacy Management Group CEO, debate whether President Obama's budget proposal will include enough entitlement cuts when he sends it to Congress next week.
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CNBC's Brian Shactman takes a look at what the fiscal cliff means for baseball.
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President Obama is making his case for raising taxes on the wealthy during a tour at a toy factory in Pennsylvania today. Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-CA), offers his insight.
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House Speaker John Boehner responds to President Obama's "fiscal cliff" proposals.
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Right after the election, it was all peaches and cream and conciliatory common-ground language.
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*Some Tea Party- backed members flexible on tax rates. WASHINGTON, Nov 30- A growing number of Republicans in the House of Representatives- including a handful of Tea Party- backed conservatives- are signaling greater flexibility than their leaders to reach a "fiscal cliff" deal with President Barack Obama.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- The U.S. Congress should consider raising the federal gasoline tax as part of a budget deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year and to help ensure funding for some $150 billion of highway projects needed over the next decade, transportation and business advocates said on Friday.
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LONDON, Nov 30- Britain and Germany may have missed out on a combined $1 billion in sales tax since online marketplace eBay picked a tiny Luxembourg office as its base for EU sales, a shift that lawmakers say should now be investigated.
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HATFIELD, Penn., Nov 30- President Barack Obama hit the road on Friday to turn up pressure on Republicans in the "fiscal cliff" talks, urging Americans to support his drive to raise taxes on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for the middle class.
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CNBC's Diana Olick explains how debt forgiveness may be driving a rise in short sales.
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David Kostin, Goldman Sachs, provides his forecast for next year, predicting the economy will grow almost two percent and the S&P will rise about twelve percent from current levels.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli weighs in on Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal's stance on a special dividend.
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A look at what traders are watching amid worries over the "fiscal cliff" and uncertainty in Europe, with Steve Grasso, Stuart Frankel.
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"It's confusing to me as to why they want to raise taxes on the one hand this year and then take a tax code overhaul next year," said Lawrence Bossidy, former Honeywell chairman & CEO, discussing tax reform.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli throws papers and storms off after a heated discussion about taxes with Steve Liesman.
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"The economies are not growing so the export markets are weak," explains Lawrence Bossidy, former Honeywell chairman & CEO, discussing his outlook on global economies and its impact on the U.S. economy.
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A host of companies have rushed to issue special dividends or pay them early in order to avoid higher taxes next year. Carol Roth, author of "The Entrepreneur Equation," and Jason Trennert, Strategas Research Partners, discuss whether it's pre-mature to make such a move.
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Taking a closer look at what lawmakers could cut, and by how much, with CNBC's Eamon Javers. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) explains why he is willing to go over the cliff rather than make a bad deal.
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Are Afghans perfectly capable of defending themselves like the President says they are? Bing West, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, weighs in. "President Obama has an uphill climb ahead of him if he going to get back to a position of power in the Israel-Arab dynamic," he says.
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Discussing whether it is possible to rise above the partisanship, and to produce a fiscal deal that will help the country grow, with Senator Tom Coburn M.D. (R-OK). "We ought to be talking about the realistic goals of the President, and his plans for entitlement reform," he says.
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Financial markets react negatively to three dangerous games of chicken being played out around the globe.