Less than a week remains before a still-recovering U.S. economy confronts a draconian austerity regime of automatic, across-the-board tax increases and deep cuts to federal spending. Hopes of averting the so-called "fiscal cliff" by January 1 are dimming with each passing day. Call it Washington's version of Mission Impossible. The challenge? A politically-divided and chronically-gridlocked Congress has just days to forge a deficit reduction package acceptable to legislators of ...
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