Update: Tuesday, Jan. 1: 11:59 p.m. EST: Before leaving for Hawaii, President Obama hailed the fiscal-cliff bill, which he plans to sign. With regard to future negotiations over the nation’s budget, ...

The compromise that President Barack Obama and Congress struck on Jan. 1, 2013, to avert drastic federal spending cuts and tax increases known as the fiscal cliff also included some smaller tax perks.

Last week's deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" settled very little. For those in the health care market, I will suggest the big takeaway is that we should expect very little will be settled in the ...

While the last-minute fiscal cliff aimed to help middle-class families, it was also chock-full of tax breaks for businesses and industries worth close to $68 billion. Among the special interests ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

U.S. stock markets rallied Wednesday after the House passed the fiscal cliff deal late Tuesday night. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was up 263 points in the first 45 minutes of trading, lost ...

President Barack Obama spoke Monday at 1:30 p.m. — with just hours left before the midnight fiscal cliff deadline — to say lawmakers were inching closer to a deal that would prevent automatic tax ...

As December begins and the countdown to resolve the fiscal cliff heats up, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is hopeful. The Washington Post reports that Geithner said a deal will be reached in time ...