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Topic: Federal Deficit (page 3)

(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

"Grand bargain"? No thanks

Martin Crutsinger

(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/David Manning/Salon)

CEOs behaving badly

President Obama; Pete Peterson (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Michael Prince/Salon)

Return of the "Grand Bargain"

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Blame the Republicans!

Political commentator and author Ann Coulter addresses the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 10, 2012. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Ann Coulter's fake budget math

President Obama and John Boehner (AP)

Goldman backs status quo

Job seekers attend the Minneapolis Career Fair held Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Bloomington, Minn. (AP/Jim Mone)

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The Pentagon's whining offensive

Michael Bloomberg and Erskine Bowles (AP/Reuters)

Politico's fantasy presidential candidates

Peter Finocchiaro

Budget cuts imperil hurricane forecasting

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John Bolton

John Bolton: Debt deal might imperil endless war

Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill. addresses a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (AP)

Rep. Joe Walsh not hawkish on debt owed to ex-wife

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Rep. Paul Broun

FILE -- In this file photo of Thursday, June 16, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, right, stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cantor, who has been participating in bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden, pulled out today citing an impasse over taxes that required intervention by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

Is Aug. 2 the drop-dead date for the debt ceiling?

Natasha Lennard

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy annual fundraising event on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in Chicago. Gov. Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were among the 900 people who attended a fundraiser. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey) (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic National Committee event at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, Thursday, June 23, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., meets with reporters in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2011. Cantor praised Vice President Joe Biden for his shepherding of the bi-partisan Congressional panel working to solve the debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Demand for vintage cars, art, watches, rare wines expanded as the super-rich recouped crisis losses (Picasa 2.7)

The richest are richer than before the crisis

Natasha Lennard

The six-member bipartisan group of U.S. senators, referred to as the Gang of Six. Clockwise from top left, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.

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