Congress inching toward deal on fiscal cliff

By Marc Kaufman Brian Vastag, on December 29th, 2012

With the clock ticking toward a New Year’s time bomb of huge tax increases and spending cuts, US lawmakers worked feverishly Saturday to keep America from tumbling off that so-called fiscal cliff. The stakes in the game of holiday-interrupting brinkmanship are huge. Economists agree the $500…

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Congress inching toward deal on fiscal cliff