{"id":36270,"date":"2012-12-18T02:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_outline_of_us_fiscal_deal_emerges\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T02:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:21:33","slug":"ft_outline_of_us_fiscal_deal_emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36270","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Outline of US fiscal deal emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shape of a deal to avert the US fiscal cliff is at last emerging, with at least $1tn in new taxes, up to $1tn in fresh spending cuts and an increase in America\u2019s debt ceiling, as negotiators scramble to reach an agreement before the end-of-the-year deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama, US president, and John Boehner, Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, held their third face-to-face meeting in eight days at the White House amid signs of growing momentum in the talks. If they strike a deal in the coming days, and are able to pass it through Congress, it would remove a huge cloud of uncertainty hanging over the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d478bd92-4872-11e2-a6b3-00144feab49a.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shape of a deal to avert the US fiscal cliff is at last emerging, with at least $1tn in new taxes, up to $1tn in fresh spending cuts and an increase in America\u2019s debt ceiling, as negotiators scramble to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36270\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,582,589,149,617,675,616,151,667,618,673,587,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}