Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Super investor Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks with TODAY’s Matt Lauer about Cyber Monday sales figures, consumer confidence and the future of the American economy. Warren noted that raising taxes on the rich would not dampen economic growth in any […]
Grover Norquist is confronted by a tax pledge mutiny as the fiscal cliff approaches. Norquist has demanded for years that elected officials sign a pledge promising not to raise any taxes under any circumstance and over the years, a majority of Republicans in the U.S. Congress have done so. However, this year one-third of the […]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Corporate CEOs are going on a publicity tour to encourage cuts to middle class entitlements instead of cutting their own corporate welfare. Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne joins Ed Schultz to discuss the CEO’s bad information on the fiscal cliff.
If the United States ends up falling off the “fiscal cliff” Republicans in Congress will carry most of the blame according to a new poll released by the Pew Research Center yesterday. “As the president and congressional leaders begin negotiations to avoid the “fiscal cliff” deadline at the end of the year, there is widespread […]
Progressives are hoping that if Republicans won’t listen to President Obama on the Buffett Rule, then maybe they’ll listen to President Reagan. The Center for American Progress unearthed video of Reagan making the case in 1985 for closing tax loopholes on the rich in strikingly similar terms to Obama, even leading an audience to cheers […]