Pre-Marketing: Bowles slaps down Boehner

• Fiscal cliff: A modest proposal

  We need time to properly reset our national priorities and get our fiscal house in order, so let's push the fiscal cliff to 2014 and go with a tax surcharge on those earning more than $500,000. By Ram Charan

  Nov 20, 2012 1:43 PM ET
  Posted in: Barack Obama, fiscal cliff, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Ram Charan

• John Boehner's bad biz plan

  "We'd throw him out!" Really?

  FORTUNE -- House Speaker John Boehner addressed the party faithful here in Tampa this evening, telling a story about his old family business that was supposed to serve as a metaphor for President Obama.

  Here was the gist:

  "My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. Believe me when I say I learned how to deal MORE

  Dan Primack - Aug 28, 2012 8:28 PM ET
  Posted in: John Boehner

• Boehner blows it on jobs report

  John Boehner doesn't let the jobs numbers get in the way of a political argument.

  The July jobs report wasn't released until 8:30am this morning, but it looks like House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wrote his reaction before seeing the actual numbers.

  In a statement posted to his website, Bohener wrote:

  "Today's unemployment report is more proof that all of the Washington spending, taxing, and regulating is devastating our economy. While the American MORE

  Dan Primack - Aug 5, 2011 8:51 AM ET
  Posted in: jobs, John Boehner, Macro

• And now, the next show: A game of semantics on taxes

  Will the special committee created by the debt deal raise taxes or won't it? Not surprisingly, it all depends on politics.

  By Tory Newmyer, writer

  FORTUNE -- In declaring victory in the debt-ceiling standoff with Democrats, Congressional Republicans have been crowing that the deficit-cutting deal they negotiated won't raise a dime through higher taxes.

  Whether or not that's true remains an open question. It's already the subject of renewed partisan sniping even amidst MORE

  Aug 2, 2011 12:14 PM ET
  Posted in: Bush tax cuts, debt deal, John Boehner, Tax cut

• Nothing but a Congressional comb-over

  Even when a compromise is reached, the current bills proposed to lower the deficit are merely covering up long-term budget deficit issues that will need to be addressed again in the next 12 to 18 months.

  By Daryl G. Jones, Hedgeye

  Discussion of the debt ceiling debate has become the one of the most overhyped factors in global markets and it is a little depressing to analyze the political shenanigans going on in MORE

  Jul 29, 2011 11:14 AM ET
  Posted in: debt ceiling, deficit, Harry Reid, Hedgeye, John Boehner

• Who's missing from debt talks? Corporate America.

  The business lobby has entered the debt ceiling debate at the 11th hour with only a whimper, considering the stakes of a default for corporations.

  By Tory Newmyer, writer

  FORTUNE -- If the specter of a default has spooked corporate America, you wouldn't know it by watching their hired guns in Washington over the last several weeks.

  Aside from sending a handful of letters urging Congress to act, the big business lobby has MORE

  Jul 28, 2011 11:25 AM ET
  Posted in: debt ceiling, deficit, John Boehner, lobbying, Macro

• Lessons from America's last brush with default

  Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and other former Clinton administration officials reflect on the last time Washington was divided over a debt ceiling debate, and why this time it's different.

  By Tory Newmyer, writer

  FORTUNE -- Here's the scene from 1995: A default on the federal debt is looming; young, newly-empowered Republicans on Capitol Hill are looking to use that threat as leverage to push their budget proposal; a Democratic White House MORE

  Apr 25, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Bill Clinton, debt ceiling, deficit, Economy, John Boehner, Newt Gingrich, President Obama, Robert Rubin

• Larry Summers on a shutdown: The risks this time are greater

  The former economic adviser to President Obama talks about the risks of a shutdown and what he sees in Paul Ryan's budget plan.

  By Tory Newmyer, writer

  FORTUNE -- The first shutdown of the federal government in 15 years now looks more likely than not. Less clear is what that event would mean for the economy. For some perspective, Fortune talked to Larry Summers, who was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during MORE

  Apr 8, 2011 2:51 PM ET
  Posted in: budget, Economy, John Boehner, Larry Summers, Paul Ryan