United States

Obama seals 11th hour Budget deal with Republicans to avert fiscal cliff

President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans have reached a deal to avert the fiscal cliff on the last day of 2012. mobile phone tracking uk The upshot is income-tax rates will rise, unemployment benefits will be maintained and tax breaks for families of modest means. The deal also delays for two months part of the $US110 billion in spending cuts …

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Legendary Julian Robertson joins Twitter? Or is this a fake?

Legendary Tiger Fund founder “Julian Robertson” has apparently joined Twitter and is already making a splash with pungent comments on the US fiscal cliff. Problem us – is this Julian for real or a fake Twitter account?  Some on Twitter say they have contacted his office to be told it is a fake. If so, pity because the comments are …

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“As transparent a way as possible” – US Head TPP Negotiator

Chief US Negotiator Barbara Weisel confronted charges that the TPP negotiations are not transparent during Wednesday’s TPP press conference. write my paper “We all have done as much as we can to meet with the stakeholders and this includes not just meetings at the round, but regularly in our own capitals to try to ensure that the agreement we have achieved responds …

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Karl Rove benched by Fox News

Celebrity American political consultant Karl Rove has reportedly been benched by Fox News after an abysmal performance at Election time. Rove was consistently wrong throughout the day in his predictions to the point where it may have cost him his job – for now at least.

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TPP anything but plain sailing

The US is in the box seat for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations but despite the Americans’ clear negotiating clout – obvious on the outskirts of the TPP talks at SkyCity Convention Centre – things are not plain sailing. The powerful US Chamber of Commerce has made it clear that the TPP deal is important to America’s future …

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