Another Week Gone And No Fix For The Fiscal Cliff .

By BusinessInsider

mmediately following the November 6th general election, congressional leaders and the president began positioning themselves for negotiations to deal with the upcoming "fiscal cliff", a series of budgetary measures at end-2012 that will (if not addressed) result in a severe fiscal tightening and push the US economy back into recession

The approach of the fiscal cliff has concentrated policymakers' minds on a high-profile issue that has been a flashpoint bet