Republicans

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  Congress’ Next Slugfest: Debt Ceiling, 3 Battling Budgets

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 25, 2013

  Now that the government is funded through September, Congress must tackle the debt ceiling and three separate budgets, says Andy Friedman of The Washington Update.

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  Sequestration Cuts Imminent; Government Shutdown Looms

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  As the nation braced for the $85 billion in sequestration cuts to kick in on March 1, Joe Lieber of Washington Analysis laid out the “numerous tools available” to blunt sequestration’s impact.

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  Obama Presses for Delay, but Sequestration Cuts Imminent

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  President Barack Obama urged Congress Tuesday to delay the looming sequestration cuts by passing a package of both spending cuts and tax hikes, but reports said Wednesday that Obama’s plan was DOA in the House.

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  The Critical Election Question: Can We Spend Our Way Out of a Slump?

  By Mike Patton  |  October 22, 2012

  For some, government spending is just what the doctor ordered when an economy falls on hard times. But is the doctor a quack or a genius?

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  Sen. Schumer: ‘Scrap’ Simpson-Bowles in Fiscal Cliff Talks, Raise Top Tax Rates

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 9, 2012

  Schumer says “old style” tax reform is now obsolete because there are two new conditions that exist today that didn’t exist when the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was passed: “a much larger, more dangerous deficit, and a dramatic increase in income inequality.”

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  What’s Jeff Gundlach Thinking?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  Call him eccentric if you like, but you’d have to follow it with another accompanying superlative (Hint: It rhymes with “zenius”).

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  Romney or Obama? LPL and FSI Polls Disagree

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 14, 2012

  As the presidential race heats up with Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate, polls from FSI and LPL have reached vastly different conclusions about who will win.

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  Obama Proposes to Extend Bush Tax Cuts Excluding Top Earners

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 9, 2012

  Plan would be for one year and exclude those families earning more than $250,000; GOP opposed, wants to extend cuts for all.

• Clinton, Other Speakers Headline Insite

  By James J. Green & Joyce Hanson  |  June 27, 2012

  Insite 2012, Pershing’s 14th-annual conference, attracted more than 2,000 attendees, many of whom are broker-dealer home office personnel and BD reps who work through Pershing’s clearing business and use its technology.

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  Bill Clinton Seeks Obama Win (But He Likes George Bush, Too)

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  June 6, 2012

  "I thought he was awesome," said one Pershing colleague to another at the close of Clinton’s keynote address at the BNY Mellon company’s annual conference in Hollywood, Fla.